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DEATHS 



MEMORANDUM 




THOMAS JEFFERSON SIMPSON, M. D. 
Age 50 Years. 



SIMPSON'S BOOK 



OF 



Facts, Truths and Reason 



Prophecies in the Fine Stones of the Earth. How 
the Earth was made. What Causes Earthquakes 
and Volcanoes. Man's First Existence on the 
Earth. What Constitutes the Universalum or the 
Orbit of the Universal (Solar System). The 20 
Eternal Thmgs that Never Were Created and 
Never Will be Destroyed. All Human Worship a 
Fake and a Failure. The Bible the Work and 
Ongmation of Men as its Poor and Worthless Con- 
struction Indicates. All Human Worship Wrong 
Misleading and Deceitful. Pure Theology must 
Harmonize with Geology, and the Formation of 
the Heavens, Earth, and all the Eternal Things 
that has an Existence in the Eternal Unlimited 
Ethereal Space and Infinitude. There is Not Now 
nor Never Was a Man God. There is but one God 
and that God is Intelligence. 



BY 



THOMAS JEFFERSON SIMPSON, M. D. 



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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 
THOMAS JEFFERSON SIMPSON, M. D. 

My great-grandfather started from England 
to Virginia with his young wife, and my grand- 
father was born on the ocean, and his father and 
mother both died on the ocean and were buried 
in the ocean. The ladies of the ship saved the 
child, and when they landed in Virginia they 
gave the child (my grandfather) to a man whose 
name was Miller, who raised him and gave him 
the name of Miller. He joined Washington's 
army at 14 years of age, as a substitute for his 
foster-father, and re-enlisted and served until 
the war ended in victory. His foster-father had 
no other heirs and left him thirty thousand 
dollars, which he lost by going security for a 
horse- and negro-trader, who lost all his money 
gambling, and Grandfather Miller turned over 
thirty kegs of silver with one thousand dollars 
in each keg, and paid the debt; went to southern 
Kentucky, took up land there, and made him- 
self a home there; and enlisted again under 
Andrew Jackson, and participated in the Battle 
of New Orleans, and his daughter, Mariah Miller, 

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4 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

was my mother. My grandfather, John Simp- 
son, came from near Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
landed in Virginia, five years after the close of 
the Revolutionary War; and he, too, went to 
Kentucky, and on Licking River married a Miss 
Hashaw, then settled in southern Kentucky, 
and while returning from the Battle of New 
Orleans he made the acquaintance of Miller, and 
took land and settled near him, and it was his 
son, Andrew Simpson, that married Mariah 
Miller and these two became my father and 
mother long after they moved to Missouri, I being 
the seventh child and sixth son. I was born on 
the Simpson farm in section fifteen, township 
forty-three of range sixteen, in Moniteau County, 
Missouri. When I was five years old I went to 
school just one day, and I learned the whole of 
the alphabet in the forenoon, and it pleased the 
teacher so well he let me sleep under a shade- 
tree all the afternoon. When I was fifteen 
years old I learned the multiplication table 
complete in five hours, and answered every ques- 
tion correctly; and the teacher told it at the 
exhibition as a thing never heard of before, and 
said that I could learn more and do it faster 
than any one he had ever seen, and that he had 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. O 

been constantly teaching school for the past 
seven years; that I entered the school in the 
six-year-old class, and that I had literally, in less 
than three months, crawled up and got on top of 
the school. Then after a time I entered the 
Dillamatter School at where Clarksburg now 
stands. With over one hundred and twenty- 
five attendance, many of whom were young men 
and women, I was put in the eleven- and twelve- 
year-old class, and in less than six months I had 
again crawled up and got on top of the school; 
and the teacher was called away on urgent busi- 
ness. He left me in charge of the school, and 
I gave perfect satisfaction to the school and the 
teacher. It was during this school term that 
South Carolina seceded and Fort Sumter was 
fired on. Lincoln took his seat and old Bu- 
chanan slunked away in disgrace, after turning 
over all the arms and munitions of war to the 
rebels. I had the promise of the appointment 
to West Point by both Senator Green and 
Congressman Woodson, but Green and Wood- 
son both went with the rebels and I stood for 
the Union, and captured the first rebel soldier, 
with his double-barreled shotgun loaded with 
thirty-six buckshot, and I fired the first gun in 



6 FACTS, TEUTHS AND REASON. 

the war in Moniteau County, Missouri. I was 
offered a captain^s commission to enter the 
Union army, but my brother s}TQpathized with 
the rebel Confederacy, and threatened if I went 
in the Union army he would go into the Con- 
federate army, and our mother would be left 
alone and our home not cared for and unpro- 
tected, and my education needed further atten- 
tion, and for these reasons I did not enter the 
Union army. I began stud}ung geolog}' and 
mineralogy when I was twelve years old, and 
before I was fourteen years old I had dug four 
shafts in the earth to find coal, and struck coal 
in eveiy one of them. At fifteen I had found 
and opened one of the greatest mines in the 
State; that after continuous operation for forty 
years, it is not half exhausted. In fishing and 
hunting I was considered an expert. One goose 
hunt footed up twenty-four dead geese and 
twenty-four live geese in three hours. Eight 
turkeys in four hours. Eight quail fipng at 
one shot. Two-bushel sack fuh of prairie 
chickens in five hours. Toled up and killed by 
poisoning enough crows, hawks and owls to fill 
a wagon bed in one day. ^lien I was twelve 
years old I fenced the stock yard with hornet 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



nests by going after night, plugging up the holes, 
then sawing off the limbs or bushes they were 
on and carrying and placing them around the 
stock yard, and when I had six so located I 
went around and removed the plugs. There 
was no other fence needed, but I just had fun 
galore seeing the stock leave the stock yard 
double-quick, day or night, rain or shine, not a 
straw could be taken. 

From the 20th of August until the 19th of 
December, 1867, when I was on a river boat on 
its way from Fort Benton to St. Louis, with 
about four hundred passengers aboard, and 
hanging on sand bars nearly every day, on one 
five days, on another eleven days, and still on 
others, until the boat was out of anything to 
eat; we were on half rations for ten days, then 
on quarter rations for five days, then fourteen 
days the table was never set nor food tasted, 
except rosebuds and some elm bark. Old Red 
Cloud on one side of the river and old Sitting 
Bull on the other side. Two men, Blackmore 
and Anderson, ventured half a mile from the 
boat. Anderson was killed. Blackmore es- 
caped. I was one that went out, drove Indians 
back and helped bury Anderson, who had 



8 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REAS0>7. 

$1,700.00 in gold dust in the boat safe, which I 
suppose was pocketed by the man with the key. 
One family was near freezing to death. I went 
and laid the matter before the commander of 
United States Fort, and got blankets and sol- 
dier's clothes for them. I saw bacon sell for 
ten dollars a pound. I saw salt sold for its 
weight in gold. That was the time when money 
lost its value. Early in the morning a gang of 
prairie chickens passed over the boat and halted 
on a hill half a mile away from the boat. When 
I saw a whole company of soldiers start after 
them, I went the other way, hoping I might 
find a rabbit. I was nearing a grove of big 
Cottonwood trees when the soldiers flushed the 
chickens and they lighted in the very tops of 
these big trees. I made quick two shots of over 
150 yards with my Colt revolver and killed a 
chicken at each shot, when they flew once more 
and were gone. I heard a soldier holler out: 
^^See that man kill the two chickens a half a 
mile with a pistol." I returned to the boat the 
lion of the occasion. I was met with a great 
acclaim as I went up the gang plank. I was 
offered eighty dollars each for the chickens. 
Then came the greatest trial of my life. I had 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 9 

not tasted food for fourteen days, but there 
were two families of small children on that boat 
and they were nearly dead. I just went and 
gave each family a chicken, and walked away to 
gnaw elm bark and rosebuds, if I could find any. 
The next day Captain Smith of the boat bought 
two barrels of flour and one barrel of sugar of a 
trapper for enormous price. I got to my part, 
as a first-class passenger, eleven small biscuits, 
one teacup of sugar and a glass of water, and 
ate it all without stopping, as, if I kept any, it 
v/ould be likely stolen. That was the best din- 
ner I have so far ever eaten in my life. But my 
conscience was clear — I had saved the children. 
Clagett's family, delegate to Congress from 
Montana, and the other was Phillip Stephen^s 
family, of Moniteau County, Missouri. 

In the last part of my fourteenth and first 
part of my fifteenth year, I helped to cut and 
saw the large red oak tree, and with my own 
hands split, shaved and edged the shingles, took 
the old roof off and put new roof on quite a large 
house for those days, and performed the work 
so well that it did good service without a leak 
for thirty-four years. I also made an addition 
to the house 12x28 feet, and dressed the rough, 



10 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

hard-seasoned oak with the jack and four planes, 
and made the doors of fine walnut. I was my 
own apprentice. I never had to learn a trade; 
the tools and job was all that was necessary. I 
could always make my own drafts for buildings, 
bridges or other structures, either in stone, 
brick, wood or metals, and could follow the draft 
and do the work, let it be fine or coarse. In my 
fifteenth and sixteenth years I was going to 
school, mining, running farms and trading in 
stock, and from that time until I was twenty- 
one I mostly put in absorbing book education, 
and all my life since I have made the study of 
geology, mineralogy, the science of the earth, 
the heavens, the eternal things and the eternal, 
unlimited infinitude as a special study, combined 
with human worship of all the human race de- 
ducted from facts, and actual truths existing, 
or obtained hypothetically or otherwise. I have 
read and studied the Bible from Genesis to Reve- 
lations, and studied it not with insane fear and 
trembUng, but with a full and determined reso- 
lution to measure and weigh the exact meaning, 
as well as all the underlying objects to be ac- 
complished by the wording and meaning as 
measured and weighed by the greatest gift of 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 11 

intelligence (God) to man, Human Reason, and 
by so doing deduced the true facts and truths 
therein to be found. Every fact, every truth, 
every error and every fraction of either fact, 
truth or error, was measured and weighed in the 
balance of Human Reason, and where found 
unsound, unreasonable, untruthful, false or er- 
roneous, were at once canceled, as no such can 
or could emanate from God, and only have ex- 
istence as a negative to give meaning to the real 
things. The Intelligence (God) of the earth, 
the heavens, the eternal unlimited ethereal 
space and infinitude is not made up of that kind 
of stuff and silly twaddle. 

Every debt or obligation I ever contracted or 
was security for was paid in full. Seven times 
during my life I have been in an ace of death, 
and every time by accident, and it has always 
seemed to me that the great ruling power of 
the Eternal and Unlimited Intelligence, that 
controls all infinitude, caused the danger to 
move aside, that I yet live for some noble pur- 
pose. The rehearsal of these accidents and 
miraculous escapes would be interesting, did 
space permit, but mere facts must suffice. I 
never used coffee, as it does not support life. 



12 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

I never used tobacco in any form, and have all 
my life considered its use a filthy nuisance. 
Alcoholic liquors have all my life been kept in 
my home and used as medicine, and in the same 
way by my parents, and there never was one of 
the family drunk, disorderly, or was ever ar- 
rested for an offense. My moral character and 
honest intent will stand investigation in any of 
the many localities in which I have lived. My 
object in writing this book is to get the people 
to learn the facts, to see and understand the 
truth, and to avoid false worship based on 
falsehoods and misrepresentations in order to 
mislead the ignorant people in order to get 
money and wealth for the support of priests and 
preachers, p^i/i ^qfe^^CS 

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. 

Dr. T. J. Simpson, of Neosho, who makes the 
cure of consumption a success, spent a few days 
in Sedalia. Dr. Simpson is probably the best 
posted man in Missouri on mineralogy and ge- 
ology, and seems to have the faculty of finding 
more curiosities or freaks of nature in stones or 
stone formations than fall to the lot of our 
greatest scientific men. While here he showed 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 13 

US three flint stones that probably no substance 
in the world is harder, except diamond. In one 
is shown a perfect human eye. Then another 
stone showing a perfect onion, as if it were cut 
right through the middle, which for rarity and 
beauty exceeds anything ever found on this 
earth. No diamond, opal, ruby or other pre- 
cious stones will compare with this matchless 
curiosity. Then another stone — the wonder of 
the world — it shows a golden surface of the 
earth with an azure blue sky, with the strata 
turned up into a mountain peak, with a volcano 
in active eruption, belching forth a great column 
of black smoke from the top of which the wind 
is blowing it away off in one direction and away 
up above are to be seen black rocks as well as 
two pieces of gold. He said he had others 
which he has not yet developed. He said at 
one time he had the finest cabinet in the state, 
that he furnished specimens to the Smithsonian 
Institute at Washington, D. C, on one of which 
the carving cost $214. Dr. Simpson is a Mis- 
sourian, born in Moniteau County, where he 
makes his finds and discoveries. — Sedalia Sen- 
tinel, 

The subject of the above sketch, Dr. T. J. 



14 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

Simpson, is well known in Moniteau County and 
Missouri. At the age of fourteen years he dug 
several shafts into the earth — remarkable for 
one of that age — and discovered and opened 
one of the greatest mines in the state, better 
known as the Simpson coal, zinc and lead mine, 
which is still being successfully operated. At 
the age of fifteen he was mining, running farms 
and trading in stock. In school he was among 
the foremost scholars of that day and time, and 
we are informed, he was the first man in Moni- 
teau County to declare himself for the perpetuity 
of the Union in the great rebellion of 1861 and 
'65. He got the first five men together to resist 
the Confederacy ; captured the first war prisoner 
and his big gun loaded with thirty-six buckshot; 
and he also fired the first gun in the war in Moni- 
teau County, Mo. 

Prof. Simpson has large real estate holdings 
and many other interests to look after, as well 
as heahng the sick and infirm. Still he takes 
great pleasure in looking up curious and inter- 
esting stone formations, and bringing to light 
wonderful lines of intelligence in support of the 
highest order of attainments in science. It was 
he that projected and brought before the Cham- 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 15 

ber of Commerce of Kansas City the great north 
and south railroad, to extend from Fort Churchill 
to the Gulf of Mexico by way of St. Joseph and 
Kansas City, which resulted in giving Kansas 
City the Kansas City Southern Railroad, one of 
the best railroads entering the city, and is yet 
destined to extend to Fort Churchill on Hudson^s 
Bay, the finest navigable waters known, and 
give those cities and the central West the 
greatest free advertisement they have ever had, 
by stating in his communication that he could 
plow and plant (except at river crossings) from 
Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico in the richest 
and most productive soil on this earth, which 
was published free of cost, both in this country 
and Europe, and the people learned for the first 
time that there was a paradise on the earth 
where the people and climate was unsurpassed, 
and a rich productive soil, where they could plow 
and plant for fifteen hundred miles without a 
halt, except to eat, drink and be merry. It is a 
well known fact that 150 miles from Kansas 
City in all directions is the best patch of land 
for climate, soil, water, productive resources 
and progressive people on this earth. — Clarks- 
burg Review, 



16 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

In connection with the above will say that 
Thomas Jefferson Simpson is well known in 
Missouri as a pusher in his efforts to develop the 
resources of Missouri. The first fish and game 
laws were written by him and put before the 
legislature and became laws just as written. 

It was through him that the charter was 
taken out for the Fort Scott, Jefferson City & 
St. Louis Railway Company, which resulted in 
a railroad from Jefferson City seventeen miles 
southwesterly, to v/hich was afterward added a 
tie road to the Osage river. It was started to 
the great southwest but went nowhere. He 
also projected a railroad to Chicago by v/ay of 
Quincy, Paris, Centralia, Columbia, California, 
Lebanon, Little Rock to the gulf, with a branch 
from some point about twelve miles from CaU- 
fornia to Versailles, thence southwest to Car- 
thage, and to be continued to the city of Mexico. 
He had the road secured to the Missouri river, 
on condition that the people of Moniteau 
county would put $150,000 in the grade from 
the river to Cahfornia, which failed for the want 
of enterprise in the people of Cahfornia and the 
county generally. The people at Chicago and 
in north Missouri fully realized that if the rail- 



AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 17 

road should get to California it would continue 
to the gulf and would be over 200 miles shorter 
than by the Mo. Kan. & Tex. route, and would 
also be the shortest route to the great southwest 
and Mexico. Simpson at the time was largely 
in debt, and was very much in need of money, 
but he expended several hundred dollars in 
working up the enterprise but it proved a fail- 
ure because the people could not see and realize 
the future of such an enterprise, which would 
have put California far ahead of Sedalia and in all 
probability with 50,000 population and prob- 
ably with the state capital just southwest of 
the fine flourishing city. While Dr. Simpson 
has passed through great financial troubles and 
strife, even with fists and gun, he has turned all 
into victory, and, being a bachelor, his needs 
are not large, but when he needs money it is at 
his command, and California would feel honored 
to have him as a citizen should he choose to 
locate within her borders. — California Demo- 
crat. 



PREFACE. 

The object of the contents of this book is to 
convey to the mind of the reader a fair idea of 
the most important things, matters, subjects, 
rehgious behefs, worships and laws, that have an 
existence on the earth, in the heavens, or in the 
eternal unlimited infinitude, properly criticized, 
explained and weighed in the balance of Human 
Reason, and deducing therefrom the proper 
rules of human life while here on earth. Chap- 
ter 1. I here present to the mind of the reader 
the one thing in which the whole human race 
has the most vital interest, that which causes 
more trouble and sorrow and more pleasure and 
happiness than anything else that this world is 
heir to, and that is the baby, which I have put 
in verse and song, "I Wish I Was a Baby.'' 
Chapter 2. I here present to the mind of the 
reader the fine stones of the earth and what 
makes them valuable. Their fine polish, the 
grandeur of their reflections, their prophetic 
profiles, pictures, and the beautiful colors they 
contain, makes them pleasing to the eye, valu- 
able in the arts, and as ornaments in buildings 

(19) 



20 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

and homes; and the great fossil kingdom is of 
immense advantage in obtaining an insight as 
to the structure and formation of the earth, as 
well as all other planets that swing apace in 
their orbits throughout all infinitude. 

Chapter 3. I here present to the mind of the 
reader how the earth was made. It is now a 
well known fact that the earth was formed in 
strata, and it is also a fact that the lower stratum 
was formed first, and each and every stratum 
formed on, one after the other, by a gradual ad- 
hesive process, and that the material entering 
into each and every stratum of the different 
kinds of stone was of a very infinitesimal 
quality, a mere aeriform dust, and the only way 
that the material could ever have got into that 
condition was by heat sufficient to reduce the 
material to aeriform fluid, and thence again 
formed into the stone strata, so that the un- 
forming and reforming is continuous in all 
matter formations throughout all infinitude. 
Chapter 4. I here present to the mind of the 
reader what causes earthquakes and volcanos, 
and hke causes produce Hke effects in all planet 
formations throughout all infinitude. Chapter 
5. I here present to the mind of the reader 



PREFACE. 21 

man^s first existence on the earth was on the 
great continents around the poles, probably, 
over 50,000 years ago, and their progression 
toward enlightenment and scientific attain- 
ments has been very slow, as we can fully realize 
when we see at this date the amount of ignor- 
ance, bigotry and superstition of the great ma- 
jority of the people that claim to be enlightened 
still existing. Chapter 6. I here present to 
the mind of the reader what constitutes the 
Universalum, or orbit of the universe (solar 
system), by which I wish to convey to the human 
mind the manner of movements of the planets 
and all heavenly bodies of matters in the 
eternal ethereal space and infinitude, and to 
more fully explain the unforming and the re- 
forming of the earth and other planets, and the 
ruling and controlling powers of Intelligence 
(God) when acting on and through all the other 
eternal things that have a coexistence with In- 
telligence (God), and to illustrate the supreme 
plan of eternity and infinitude. Chapter 7. I 
here present to the mind of the reader twenty 
eternal things that never were created and never 
will be destroyed nor cease to exist. Each hav- 
ing its own sphere of action to vie with and act 



22 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

in concert with all the eternal things in all the 
eternal unlimited ethereal space and infinitude. 
All ruled over and controlled by the eternal un- 
limited Intelligence (God). Chapter 8. I here 
present to the mind of the reader, What enters 
into the Uve, intelligent human being, and what 
is the result of dissolution? Chapter 9. I here 
present to the mind of the reader how the human 
beings and other animals come on the earth, and 
how they pass away and are replaced, and 
further than that no man can know. Chapter 10. 
I here present to the mind of the reader the two 
great barnacles of the human race, dividing the 
earnings of the ignorant people. Chapter 11. 
I here present to the mind of the reader Myth- 
ology, the bulwarks and heavy artillery of all 
the churches, loaded with grape, canister and 
doubled and twisted chain-shot of hell and 
damnation. Chapter 12. I here present to the 
mind of the reader the great number of halluci- 
nations, exaggerations, unmitigated lies, per- 
fidy and falsehoods based on mythological im- 
aginations. Chapter 13. I here present to the 
mind of the reader some criticisms on the fabu- 
lous lies in the Bible which, when the search- 
light of Human Reason and consistency is 



PREFACE. 23 

turned on these great extravagant, overdrawn 
fabulous statements found in the Bible, they 
cannot but be cast aside as the writings of de- 
signing priestcraft to overawe the ignorant 
people, and by such unworthy methods obtain 
money and wealth from them without labor or 
exposure. The priests and preachers howl, beg 
and threaten damnation after death, and the 
fools, through fear, turn their hard-earned 
money into the priests' or preachers' pockets. 
Chapter 14. I here present to the mind of the 
reader, The rod of Moses turned to a serpent; 
the waters of the sea and river divided; the 
Lord cast down great stones from Heaven and 
the ground clave asunder. Chapter 15. I here 
present to the mind of the reader the necessity 
of destroying the filthy, unsightly, expensive 
and entirely unnecessary use of tobacco. It has 
the effect to impoverish the land wherever it is 
grown. It brings poverty and want to the 
users and their families. It depletes education, 
intelligence, stupifies the mind, increases ignor- 
ance, prostitution, tramps and hobos. The 
money that is paid for tobacco, literally squan- 
dered and thrown away, would more than fur- 
nish all the footwear used in the nation. A 



24 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

thing not at all needed, an unsightly, filthy 
nuisance, and its cultivation and use should be 
prohibited by law enforced with a vengeance. 
Chapter 16. I here present to the mind of the 
reader, as I believe the best method and most 
feasible plan to put fully under control the use 
of alcoholic liquors, and I seek the cancellation 
and eradication of all Sunday laws, as Sunday 
was and is based on Mythology, purely an in- 
vention of priestcraft for selfish reasons. Sun- 
day is an abridgement of human conscience. 
Right now there is more business done on Sun- 
day than any other day in the week, and there 
is no valid reason for its being holy, a great hob- 
goblin and superlative breeder of hypocrisy, 
based on ignorance and superstition, and its 
sacred keeping foisted on mankind was and is 
for pelf, and pelf only, for the support of priest 
and preachercraft, to blow off their ancient, 
musty, motheaten, galore to get the money of 
the ignorant people. Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20 
and 21. I here present to the mind of the 
reader some facts in regard to Noah's flood. The 
ancient, bellicose, extortions unnaitigateJ, hook- 
nosed Jew liar that wrote the story of Noah's 
flood was probably the teacher of the liar that 



PREFACE. 25 

wrote all the rest of Genesis. Chapters 22, 23, 
24 and 25. I here present to the mind of the 
reader the shortcomings, indecent inconsistency 
and irreconcilability of all the church worship on 
the earth. Chapters 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 
33 and 34. I here present to the mind of the 
reader that we are very fortunate that we did 
not get these last books of the Bible, and that 
we would be a hundred times more blessed if we 
never had got any of the books of the old He- 
brew Bible. It will be noticed in Chapter 27 
and 28 that it is very uncertain as to what the 
teachings of Christ were, and is now, and in 
Chapter 29 that the old Hebrew Bible is likely 
far from what it was when written, and still it 
is about the most worthless piece of property 
that any person can have about the home. In 
the first place, it is so vulgar, obscene and in- 
decent that it destroys chastity by increasing 
prostitution. Chapter 29. I here present to 
the mind of the reader King James' translation, 
and other facts. Chapter 30. I here present 
to the mind of the reader that the Laws of 
Moses did not come from the hand of a mythical 
god, and it is there shown why the Bible should 
be barred from all respectable homes. Chapter 



26 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 



31. I here present to the mind of the reader 
that Christ was first called the Son of God by 
the devils right from hell. Chapter 32. I here 
present to the mind of the reader fixed rules of 
life, which should be practiced by all, as nothing 
but good can result by so doing. Chapter 33. 
I here present to the mind of the reader that 
Confucius was a great and worthy man. How 
worship first started by the worship of the sun, 
then the fire, where they get the idea of burnt 
offerings. Chapter 34. I here present to the 
mind of the reader, How the priests, preachers, 
church members, bigots and dupes and hench- 
men claim that every good thing comes from 
their mythical god, and stoops to all kinds of 
trickery and pollute history and their own myth- 
ical scriptures as well. Chapter 35. I here 
present to the mind of the reader how our great 
men are absorbing more intelligence (God) 
within them, and the benefits of the wonderful 
things they accomplish radiate to the people 
of the whole world. Chapter 36. I here pre- 
sent to the mind of the reader a general con- 
spectus, recapitulation, rehearsal and explana- 
tory references in support of the foregoing pages. 
The God idea of human origin. Personal Gods 



PREFACE. 27 

always correspond to the character of their 
worshipers. Chapter 37. I here present to the 
mind of the reader the character of the Chris- 
tian's God. He created a world with a full 
knowledge of its destiny, and then terrifically 
cursed it because it failed to meet his expecta- 
tions. Chapter 38. I here present to the mind 
of the reader that God swears in his wrath and 
is jealous of strange gods and graven images. 
Chapter 39. I here present to the mind of the 
reader that right here in the central part of the 
United States of North America, the most en- 
lightened nation on this earth, near the center 
of Missouri, six miles southeast of the city of 
Tipton, what took place in the name of Christian 
mythical God. Chapter 40. I here present to 
the mind of the reader that the Hebrew God is 
guilty of outrage, injustice and vanity. This 
God was an all-powerful God, but with many 
mean and detestable ways. He hardened Phar- 
adji's heart so that he would not let the people 
go, and then sent upon him and his people a 
long list of horrible plagues to compel him to do 
the thing he hardened his heart to prevent him 
from doing, just playing a game of hide and 
seek with Pharaoh and his people. Chapter 41. 



28 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

I here present to the mind of the reader that 
Paul, the inspired promulgator of divine truths, 
tells us that the Christian's heavenly father 
actually sends his earthly children strong delu- 
sions to believe a lie, that they might all be 
damned. It would look hke he feared his little 
seven by nine heaven would be overstocked and 
he desired to work off the surplus on his left 
bower, the one he done all the talking to (Satan) . 
See first chapter of Job. Chapter 42. I here 
present to the mind of the reader that the great 
Jehovah God Adolates his oath and breaks his 
promise. This same Jehovah at divers times 
swears to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he 
would lead their posterity to the land of Canaan, 
but he made his breach of promise and would 
not keep his oath. See Num., chap. 14, v. 34. 
Chapter 43. I here present to the mind of the 
reader the personal appearance of God. The 
psalmist, in describing his wonderful makeup, teUs 
us " that out of his mouth proceeded fire, and out 
of his nostrils proceeded smoke, and he rode upon 
a cherub and did fly.'^ II Sam., chap. 22, 9-11. 
Oh, but that was a lovely God. Nothing but 
Satan would be suited for a riding companion. 
Chapter 44. I here present to the mind of the 



PREFACE. 29 

reader, The chief end of man is to glorify God, 
so says the Christian. All such silly twaddle 
comes from the want of a knowledge of what 
constitutes the embodiment of Intelligence 
(God). God is perfection, and when anything 
is perfect, it cannot be added to, as nothing can 
be made more than perfect. Chapter 45. I 
here present to the mind of the reader, The God 
of all Eternity and throughout all infinitude is 
always with you in proportion as you adapt 
yourself to receive God by allowing yourself to 
be possessed of an untrammeled conscience and 
wisdom to absorb the superlative gift to man, 
Human Reason, which is the open door where 
Intelligence (God) can enter. Just and perfect 
reasoning absorbs Intelligence, which in turn in- 
creases the force and power of reason to a still 
greater acquirement to the extent of man's ex- 
istence absorbing more Intelligence (God) with- 
in. Those that seek will find. Intelligence 
never leads a human being wrong, but the want 
of Intelligence that makes the way of the trans- 
gressor hard, and brings to them an earthly hell, 
all they will ever know. Chapter 46. I here 
present to the mind of the reader that the age 
when the Bible and mythical man, God, ruled 



30 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

supreme, every person by priestcraft stood the 
assessments of the church, and when they re- 
fused, charges were brought against them for 
witchcraft, heresy or even heraclenite (that the 
earth was not created) and they were murdered 
by church minions or burnt at the stake to deter 
others, and in that way forced them to pay 
whatever the church demanded. There was no 
such thing as freedom. All were Christian 
church slaves. No wonder the priests did not 
marry. They had more than enough to satisfy 
the lust of old David or Solomon. But things 
are more private these days. The confessionals, 
the nunneries, and a slice off a cut loaf is ^^ not 
missed. '^ Chapter 47. I here present to the 
mind of the reader that perpetual vigilance is 
imperatively necessary to maintain in this 
country free thought, free speech, free, untram- 
meled manner of worship, human reason and an 
infidel constitution; all of which are necessary 
for the universal welfare of the whole people. 
Chapter 48. I here present to the mind of the 
reader that honesty, uprightness and moral 
character, when proven, should stand against 
many charges brought against the accused at 
the bar of justice. I again refer to Sunday, 



PREFACE. 31 

which was and is now an invention of priest and 
preachercraft to increase their revenue. Is a 
humbug, a great damage to commerce and trade, 
and the well-being of the human race, and all 
laws in favor of its sacredness or holy protend 
are an abridgement of human conscience, and 
should be canceled and unrespected by all en- 
lightened people. Chapter 49. I here present 
to the mind of the reader that blind, dogmatic, 
undoubting faith, not honesty, morality, up- 
rightness, is what constitutes the Jewish, Chris- 
tian, and all other modes of worship. Faith in 
error, lies, fabulous untruths and great extor- 
tions, fables, once the faith in them is established 
it is just as strong as if the whole were truths. 
Faith, not supported by facts as measured by 
human reason and intelligence, is a myth in all 
the worships of the world. Faith to believe a 
lie is as strong as to believe a truth, where ig- 
jiorance reigns instead of intelligence. Chapter 
50. I here present to the mind of the reader 
some idea of Moses and Joshua. While labor- 
ing under delusions which they believed were 
facts, they did the most detestable thing in the 
way of butchery, murder, robbery, ghastly and 
bloodthirsty deeds that the records of the world 



32 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

have ever shown, and I hope the reader will in- 
vestigate the acts of these men and the big un- 
believable Ues that show in their records. 
Chapter 51. I here present to the mind of the 
reader some assertions and contradictions found 
in scriptures. Chapter 52. I here present to 
the mind of the reader extracts from the pen 
of Pope, from the pen of Thomas Jefferson, and 
it was Jefferson, Paine, FrankUn and Washing- 
ton that left God out of the Constitution. 



CHAPTER I. 





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So'thegirls would hug and kiss me as they did in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

7. I wish I was a baby, to cry hut never cower, 

Bo the girls would hug and kiss me as they did in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

8. I wishi was a baby,ababyof aplower, 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as they did in childhood hour. 

Chorus. 
0. I wish I was a baby, traveling in life's great tours. 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 

Chorus. 

10. Iwish I was a baby,let the plows rust or scour, 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

11. I wish I was a baby, the weather clear or lower, 

8o the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

12. Iwish I was a baby,a baby rain or shower. 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

13. ) vr ish I was a baby, a baby of the bower, 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as they did in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

14. Iwish I was a baby,ababy,letme devower 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

15. I wish I was a baby, let mamma scrub and scour. 

Bo the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour. 
Chorus. 

16. I wish I was a baby, let pap and mam fight and jower . 

So the girls would hug and kiss me as theydid in childhood hour 
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17. Iwish I was a baby,ever so sweet or sour, 

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Fine Stones of the Earth and What 
Makes them Valuable. 



CHAPTER 2. 



FINE STONES OF THE EARTH AND 
WHAT MAKES THEM VALUABLE. 

Dr. T. J. Simpson, of Clarksburg, Missouri, 
who has gained notoriety in both the State and 
Nation for his knowledge of Geology and Miner- 
alogy. For his writings on the formation of the 
Heavens and the Earth. For his faculty of 
finding more curiosities or freaks of nature in 
stones or stone formations than fall to the lot 
of our greatest scientific men. For finding, de- 
veloping and demonstrating that the finest 
agates on this earth are to be found in Missouri, 
and can be found in Moniteau County, says: 

I am the first man to publish the theory that 
when the earth was formed there were outlined 
profiles and pictures made in the stones showing 
what would appear on the earth when it was 
finished. 

The Diamond, Tourmaline, Opal, Topaz, Sap- 
phire, Ruby, Emerald, Amethyst, Turquoise, 
Moonstone, Bloodstone, Tiger's Eye and Garnet 

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40 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

have no profiles or pictures, and their value is in 
their hardness, their fine polish, their many 
beautiful colors, and for the beauty and bril- 
liancy of their reflections. In the agate are 
shown the stratified formations of the earth, 
also running water with waving moss, such as 
can be seen in running streams, as well as many 
other pictures and profiles of things that are 
and can be seen on the earth and in the heavens. 
In the pellucid quartz are to be seen needles, 
and veins of silver and gold. Looking through 
transparent calcspar are to be seen the changing 
lines and double vision, illustrating the moving 
shadows of the sun. In the onyx are to be seen 
the beautiful landscape scenes, lakes, islands, 
seas, oceans, great storms and flying clouds. In 
the Diamond, Tourmaline, Opal, Ruby and other 
precious stones we realize the beauty and bril- 
liancy of reflected light in all its shades and 
colors. In the Tourmaline are to be seen mag- 
netic and phosphorescent qualities, adding great 
value as a jewel. On coal taken from deep 
down in the earth where light has never shone, 
can be found rainbow and peacock feather pic- 
tures, the same as the colors given off by the 
sun rays in all their beauty and splendor. In 



FINE STONES OF THE EARTH. 41 

the sandstone one thousand feet below the sur- 
face, we see bird tracks, and live frogs are found 
in the solid stone. In crystalized stones we see 
fishes and feathers. Fossil snakes are seen in 
solid stone. Stones are seen full of worm-holes 
with the worms, as it were, crawling through the 
stones. In the bed-rock, fourteen feet below 
the surface in Honduras, and under forty feet of 
solid stone in Nevada, are seen human tracks. 
In solid stone are seen tracks of cattle and deer. 
In the stone deep down in the earth is found 
cloth (Fenestra Culum) stretched across open- 
ings, showing both warp and filling. In stones 
on the earth, and stones that fall from the 
heavens, there is coal-tar, from which coal oil is 
made. Diamond is pure carbon and is the most 
valuable substance on the earth, which indicates 
that the carbon, stored in coal and wood, is the 
most valuable substance the earth contains, as 
without carbon no artificial heat or vegetation 
could be produced. 

In an serolitic stone is found a crinordal head, 
showing the inside ribs and five foramans 
through which the five nerves passed to the 
sensorium, showing that the five senses existed 
in the very earliest forms of animal life of this 



42 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

and other worlds. In an serolitic stone is found 
the butt end of an ear of Indian corn, two inches 
in diameter, grains well formed, natural size, 
twenty rows on the cob. The pith or the inside 
of the cob has been cut away to a smooth sur- 
face, then with a carver's chisel has been en- 
graved what appears to have been an alphabet 
of some people that have occupied some disin- 
tegrated planet, that probably was blown into 
such small fractions that the gravitation attrac- 
tion ceased and is now called "Nebula." 

Agates and other precious stones, being of 
serolitic origin, are found in many parts of the 
earth, as well as stones formed on the earth, 
such as Onyx, Marbles, Calcspars and Calcar- 
eous formations, showing many beautiful colors 
in their constructions, as well as their crystaliza- 
tions. Many of these fine stones of solid or 
variegated colors are valuable for paperweights, 
center-tables, or mantel ornaments, but it is 
only stones that have some peculiar quality of 
reflection, or stand forth so as to represent some- 
thing valuable on the earth, or that has a profile 
or picture of something that has been, or can 
be, or will be seen on the earth, are what makes 
them valuable, and the agates found in Missouri 



FINE STONES OF THE EARTH. 43 

seem to possess more beautiful designs and pic- 
tures than any other locaUty. I have, as I be- 
Ueve, the most wonderful agates ever found on 
this earth, designed and fashioned by a higher 
order of intelligence than mankind possesses. I 
have an agate, showing a forge with the blaze 
flying in all directions by the force of the air 
pressure, same as when iron and steel are being 
shaped. I have an agate showing the top of a 
great building, with archways and high glass 
domes on the corners. I have an agate showing 
the emblem of the order of the Mystic Shrine, 
the superlative Independent order of the higher 
degrees of the Masonic Fraternity, showing the 
eagle or tiger's claws holding the beautiful strati- 
fied earth in their grasp, showing the central 
nucleus as was described in my writings six 
months before the stone was found. This stone 
is about one and one-half inches wide, one- 
eighth of an inch thick, cut, polished and trimmed 
with gold as a pendant. I also have the twin stone 
cut from the same stone, but thinner, one and 
one-quarter inches wide, equally attractive, and 
trimmed the same as a pendant. Just one for 
the order in America and one for Europe. 
These twin stones are of such rarity that the 



44 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

human race may never be able to duplicate 
them. 

I have an agate stone showing a planet, some- 
thing like the rising sun, with stratifications 
beautifully outlined and encompassed round by 
the most miraculous encircling of white and red 
lines with the right and left sides being the exact 
counterpart of the other, which nothing but 
divine skill could accomplish in construction. 
Still this miraculous wonderment that this stone 
was placed on earth to prove that Christ was 
one of the many messiahs, men possessed of 
such great moral character and Intelligence 
(God) within them, to cause the people to wor- 
ship them as God, or as mediators between them 
and what they conceived to be God. 

As the eternal and unlimited caloric, an at- 
tribute of eternal and unlimited intelligence, is 
the cause of all life on the earth by the effect of 
heat of the sun's rays, so it is by the effect of 
the sun's rays striking the face of this stone and 
reflected onto a shaded wall produces a luminous 
picture of the crucifixion of Christ, showing the 
cross and the luminous body on the cross. 

The great bewilderment and astounding re- 
sult, that this Uttle stone not much larger than 



FTNTE STONES OF THE EARTH. 45 

a silver dollar, should possess the impress and 
power within its formation when brought in 
contact with the sun^s rays to show to mankind 
that the very stones of the earth are made to 
proclaim the truth of the crucifixion of Christ, 
one of the meanest and most ignoble crimes of 
the hundreds of thousands perpetrated or insti- 
gated by Judaism or Jewish priestcraft on the 
human race; so mean and detestable that it 
forced an impress on the very stones of the 
earth. The cross, as reflected at a distance of 
twenty feet, is about five feet by two and one- 
half feet, the upright and cross-beam being 
about two and one-half inches in diameter, or 
as a whole, about 200 times the size of the stone 
from which the reflection is made. To the 
Christian world this is the greatest wonder since 
Christ was laid in the manger. The cross has 
been the emblem and beacon light of the Chris- 
tians for over 1,900 years, and refers directly 
to Christ and his moral precepts and teachings 
while here on earth. This cross, this phantom, 
this preternatural apparition has been photo- 
graphed, and the stone is polished and trimmed 
with gold as a pendant. 

Some of the good followers of Christ ejacu- 



46 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

late that it is strange that this stone should be 
found and developed and in the possession of a 
man who does not believe in the divinity of 
Christ. I would remind the gentlemen that 
Christ came to the world through a nation of his 
enemies, and that they are still his enemies after 
nineteen hundred years; that they are afflicted 
with a disease that is strictly hereditary, known 
as religious bigotry, and that they would cru- 
cify him again had they another opportunity^ 
as they once did. Priestcraft murdered all that 
interfered with their income. 

I have an agate showing standing vegetable 
plants, the white roots with two red stocks, 
which show three joints and the tassels, three 
purple stocks showing joints. Two stocks al- 
most white, nine golden leaffolds, some of which 
are slightly touched with red, many white 
leaffolds or flat casements that fit around sup- 
porting the stocks, and with all there is a vine 
on a dead stretch, pulling the outside leaffolds 
almost double, and with sufficient force to show 
a decided effect on 17 leaffolds and stocks. 

Many of the stocks are more or less pellucid. 
This stone is about two inches long and one and 
one-half inches wide, and one-eighth of an inch 



FINE STONES OF THE EARTH. 47 

thick, polished and trimmed with gold as a 
pendant. The rarity and wonderment of this 
stone makes its great value conceded and may 
never be duplicated. 

I have an agate that shows a beautiful onion 
cut right through the middle, having first been 
slightly squeezed with a side pressure so as to 
open the folds, which for rarity and beauty ex- 
ceeds anything ever found on this earth. No 
Diamond, Opal, Ruby, Tourmaline, or other 
precious stones will compare with this match- 
less curiosity, showing up in many brilliant 
colors. I have the twin stone, a slice cut from 
the same stone, the profile being a little smaller, 
but equally beautiful and attractive. These 
twin stones are about two inches long and one 
inch wide in the middle, their shape being an 
elliptic, one-eighth of an inch thick, polished 
and trimmed with gold as pendants. These 
twin stones are of such rarity that if twenty 
men should put in full time for twenty years 
searching for such stones, they would, in all 
probability, fail to duplicate them. I have an 
agate, the amazing astonishment of the multi- 
plicity of things, showing an azure, bluish-gray 
sky, a golden surface with the strata of the 



48 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

earth turned up by an active volcano into a 
mountain peak, from which is thrown a great 
column of black smoke, from the top of which 
the wind is blowing it away off in one direction, 
and away up above are to be seen black rocks, 
as well as several pieces that appear to be gold. 
This stone is cut, polished and trimmed with 
gold as a pendant, being about one inch long 
and wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick, cut 
as a heart; the amazing peculiar outlined pic- 
ture it contains makes it very attractive, and of 
great value as a pendant. I have an agate 
showing a perfect human eye, cut so as to show 
the middle of the eye on one side, and the front 
of the eye on the other side. This stone is about 
one and one-eighth of an inch wide and one- 
eighth of an inch thick, cut octagonal, the colors 
being brown, pellucid and white. This is the 
greatest agate of them all. What would this 
world be without an eye? '^That all-seeing eye 
to look, as it were, from the eternal and unUmited 
intelligence to govern the earth, the seasons, 
and the affairs of mankind.'' 



How the Earth was made. 



CHAPTER 3. 



HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE. 

How was the earth made? Five eternal 
things must exist before the earth could be 
made: First, there must be space. Second, 
there must be duration. Third, there must be 
matter. Fourth, there must be caloric (heat). 
Fifth, there must be intelligence. 

These five eternal things existed, and never 
were created, before anything ever was made. 
Space to operate in, duration for the operation, 
matter for the construction, caloric to make 
construction possible, and intelligence to con- 
trol and direct the whole performance from be- 
ginning to end. A careful examination of the 
earth and its attributes shows that from the 
earliest period of its existence, serolitic boulders, 
rocks and metals have been falling on the earth, 
with the same kind of fossils in them, such as 
fossil snakes, univalves, crinoidal heads, crin- 
oidal stems, and many other fossils of the subcarb- 
oniferous period, as were formed on the earth, 

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52 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

illustrating the earliest forms of animal and vege- 
table life, and as these seroUtes were parts of 
disintegrating planets, destroyed by explosions 
or other cause, and are now called Nebula, from 
which it is inferred that all planets are composed 
of the same material as that composing the 
earth, and that animal Ufe was developed on 
them in the same way, and resulted by pro- 
gression into Uving, breathing animals, and to 
human beings of the highest perfection, all hav- 
ing a brain and a sensorium capable of absorb- 
ing intelligence necessary for their use and ex- 
istence. These Nebula, having no gravitation 
attraction, have occupied ethereal space for 
millions of years, until the earth, in its orbit 
around the sun, and with the Universe in its 
orbit around the great Universalum, its attrac- 
tion absorbed the nebula, which in the form of 
serolitic stones, gravels, sands, clays and soils, 
fell in great showers on the earth, the most 
heavy coming first, and the clays and soils be- 
ing hghter, coming last, as they are found on 
the Earth disarranged by the down-flowing of 
water and abrasions. 

It is unfortunate that these Nebulas exist in 
the unlimited ethereal space, and that this waste 



HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE. 53 

material, such as the rocks and gravel, have 
been piled on the Earth from a few inches to 
hundreds of feet in depth. — But as the Earth 
was formed by the eternal, unchangeable, un- 
limited intelligence: what now exists will re- 
main until the next great change (which will 
come). As the Earth was formed by gradual 
process of adhesive accumulation of eternal, un- 
limited matter that existed before the process 
of formation began, as matter can be formed, 
but cannot now be nor never was created. By 
nature's fixed laws, all matter continues to 
change, so that the Earth will disintegrate by 
reversal of attraction or other cause, and pass 
into Nebula, or by the eternal, fixed law of 
orbital motion come in contact with Caloric, 
the origin of all motion, all life on Earth, and 
throughout the unlimited, ethereal space, the 
greatest of all things on the Earth, and in the 
eternal, unlimited heavens, except Intelligence, 
concentrated and embodied in some great sun 
star, Arcturus, Procyon, Alpha Tauri or Alyone, 
the great star of the Pleiades, where the heat 
given off being so great that all animal and vege- 
table life ceases to exist for a radius of 200,000,- 
000 miles, and as the Earth passed near the great 



54 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

Caloric body, it not only became lava, but was, 
by the great intensity of heat, gasified into 
aeriform fluid, so expanded and lucid as to ap- 
pear to our vision as having no existence at the 
point of greatest heat, and from that point is 
where the formation of the Earth began. — First, 
the waste refuse matter formed into a central 
nucleus of lava, combined with the Incandescent 
Caloric to such an extent that all the gases, form- 
ing water and air, and all the matter entering 
into the strata of the Earth's after-construc- 
tion, were in the firmament extending to the 
limit of orbital attraction all around the nucleus 
of lava, of about 7,700 miles, equatorial diame- 
ter, and while in this liquid state, the revolution 
of the Earth caused the shortening of the polar 
diameter about twenty-six miles, around which, 
as this great caloric nucleus body cooled, the 
Earth's stratifications by gravitation attraction, 
aided by the down-pouring of water, governed 
by intelligent, gradual adhesive process, was 
rebuilt as the present stratified formation of the 
Earth shows have been made. The outside, 
stratified, solid crust of the Earth covering the 
inner liquid lava being about 113 miles in thick- 
ness, with over fifty vent-holes, known as vol- 



HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE. 55 

canoes, to relieve the pressure of the outside, 
stratified portion of the Earth, and were it not 
for these vent-holes the earth would be blown 
into smithereens, and being so disintegrated 
and gravitation attraction ceasing, the matter 
now composing the Earth would become Nebula 
and waste material in ethereal space, which is 
permeated with Nebulas, Earth matter, broken 
stones and metals, ready at any time to be ab- 
sorbed by the attraction of other planets in their 
orbital course in the universe of universalum. 

When the Earth expanded into serif orm fluid, 
emerged from its baptism of fire, a new-born 
world started whirling on its course of millions 
of years, held in place by the eternal, unlimited 
law of intelligence, drawing on its resources by 
its own attraction, adding stratum after stratum, 
absorbing serolitic waste and nebula matter in 
the sub-carboniferous, carboniferous and Per- 
mian formations until all the strata were about 
completed as we now see the Earth. This 
serolitic waste and nebula matter increased the 
weight and size of the Earth, which were added 
to the regular strata each time it received its 
caloric baptism of fire, which increased its 
centrifugal force, orbital radiation and distance 



56 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

from the sun as shown in the universe. Lov/cr 
the temperature beyond a certain degree and all 
vegetable and animal life disappears. Raise the 
temperature beyond a certain degree and the 
result is just the same. The eternal, unlimited 
caloric that exists throughout unlimited space, 
acted on by intelligence, forms and unforms all 
matter or material things. 

The eternal cold is the negative of Caloric, the 
lowest degree of heat. As heat decreases, cold 
increases. Where heat ceases to exist there is 
perfect cold, and where Caloric attains to aeriform 
fluid it can be added to in quantity, but its in- 
tensity remains the same. When heat is given 
off from the great Caloric body to all parts of 
the universe by the sun, it is not destroyed. It 
is still in the universe of ethereal space. There is 
enough heat comes to the Earth every summer 
to set it on fire and make it a barren waste, were 
it not for the cold in the vaulted atmosphere 
around the Earth mixing with the surface air, 
as directed by the intelligent construction of the 
Earth's attributes. 

It is a fact from the above and the concensus 
of all the evidence obtainable in regard to the 
formation of the Earth, that it was made out of 



HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE. 57 

eternal and unlimited matter; and that the 
main, moving cause and origination was eternal, 
unlimited Caloric (heat), producing the attrac- 
tion and cohesion, as well as the animal and 
vegetable life. (No heat, no Hfe). The Earth 
was formed hot and it is still hot, and there 
never has been a time since it was made, millions 
of years ago, that it was colder than it is now. 
The Earth began cooling at the poles, and the 
cold is now and has been for millions of years, 
slowly moving toward the equator. The great 
Glacial Epochs are one of the world's greatest 
humbugs. Of course there are glaciers near the 
poles, and some ice and snow slipping down a 
high mountain once in a great while; beyond 
that it is making mountains out of mole hills. 
The drift, boulders, rocks, clays and soils, that 
are scattered broadcast over and near the sur- 
face of the Earth, come to the Earth from ether- 
eal space, and are near where they struck the 
Earth. A small portion may have found their 
present location by the floating ice fields. The 
moraines, erosions and abrasions are easily ac- 
counted for with strata not sufficiently hardened, 
and the crust of the Earth raising, falling, bend- 
ing, warping and folding, and with half the 



58 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

water of the oceans in the firmament pouring 
down on the Earth, causing great floods to eat 
away the soft and unhardened crust and cutting 
great canyons in a thousand years that would 
now take a milUon years to accompUsh. As the 
universe is moving north toward the star Polaris. 
The first torrid climate was at and around the 
poles and moved gradually to the equator. The 
first tropical climate was at and around the 
poles and has moved gradually to the 
equator. The first temperate climate was at 
and around the poles and is moving gradually 
toward the equator. The first frigid climate 
was at and around the poles and is moving 
gradually toward the equator, and when it ar- 
rives at the equator, animal and vegetable life 
will have disappeared. The ocean waters will 
be evaporated and transferred into thousands 
of feet of ice on the lands. The rivers will cease 
to flow, the internal Caloric will be absorbed in 
ethereal space. The sun^s rays will fail on the 
white ice, snow, and the crystalized salts of the 
lakes, seas and ocean bottoms, and after millions 
of years of whirling through ethereal space with 
the universe, it will come in contact with the 
great Caloric body. The ice will be melted, the 



HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE. 59 

oceans will reappear, the waters will be evapor- 
ated. The Earth will go through its baptism 
of fire and be converted into serif orm fluid; then 
rebuilt and go whirling on its course of millions 
of years, with its new mantle, new universe, and 
new heaven, and by intelligence acting on 
origination and Caloric, the animal and vege- 
table life will reappear, and the people will be 
disputing over their corner lots, earn bread by 
the sweat of their brow in order to pay the priest, 
the taxes, and fight each other in religious and 
poHtical wars. Religious wars have existed 
from the time the first Church worship was 
estabUshed on the earth, for the reason that 
church worship is and always has been a scheme 
to procure money from the more ignorant and 
unsuspecting people and church dupes, and the 
church want of revenue. Rule or ruin for those 
that did not contribute to the support of priest 
or church rulers. Political wars are of a much 
later date, and is a contention as to who shall 
run the civil governments. 



What Causes Earthquakes and 
Volcanoes? 



CHAPTER 4. 



WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES AND 
VOLCANOES? 

The earth, after its transformation by incan- 
descent heat, and was transformed into a great 
caloric body of about 7,700 miles equatorial 
diameter, and all the water, gases and other 
elements entering into the after construction 
of the solid, stratified crust of the earth of about 
113 miles in thickness, were in the firmament, 
and as soon as the great caloric body cooled to 
such an extent that the congealing water and 
other elements composing each and every strata 
as they are now found to exist, come to the earth 
by the infinitesimal earth matter falling into 
the water which covered the earth all the time 
the strata were being formed. Non-air-breath- 
ing animals were originated and lived under water 
in the sub-carboniferous period, as their fossils 
demonstrate, and up to that time, the greater 
part of the water that came to the earth had 
been consumed by being absorbed into the 

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64 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON, 

cement stone formation of the strata, and the 
remaining water was not of great depth, and the 
rotary motion of the earth on its axis caused the 
water to recede from the poles toward the 
equator, exposing the great continents around 
the poles and the climate being tropical with 
plenty of rainfall, and a moist rich soil, and all 
the carbon of the earth being in the atmosphere, 
and the eternal origination caused vegetation to 
come forth in immense quantities, and as all 
the central portion of the earth was a torrid 
climate, causing the prevailing wind currents 
to draw toward the equator, and the vegetable 
matter in great drifts — fifty to one hundred 
feet in thickness — and from fifty to five hundred 
miles in width and length, floated away to all 
parts of the earth, and were left where they 
sank, and for a great age this process went on 
absorbing carbon from the atmosphere into this 
vegetable matter which, under the pressure of 
the after strata above, coal was formed into the 
great coal fields of the earth, and so depleted 
the atmosphere of carbon as to make it possible 
for the eternal origination to bring into exist- 
ence lung-breathing animals, and by progression 
to the human being of the greatest perfection, 



WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES? 65 , 

but likely did not make much headway until 
the strata above coal up to the post tertiary 
period, and the great showers of serolitic boul- 
ders, rocks, gra^vel, clays and soils had come to 
the earth from ethereal space, which v/ere the 
finishing touches of completion. 

The sub-carboniferous and conglomerate for- 
mations are full of round, smooth-polished flint 
boulders, and in the strata to and on the surface, 
mixed with other broken stones, clays and soils^ 
and no doubt received their smooth polish while 
a part of some disintegrated planet before they 
ever came to the earth. — But the above process 
of forming the earth was in progress for thous- 
ands of years. The first or lower strata were 
hot or mixed with water that was hot, and likely 
is still hot, and as all stone strata is of cement 
formation, and the particles were drawn together 
by cohesive attraction which caused the body 
to decrease in size. The upper strata were made 
when the water was cold, and the cohesive at- 
traction was accomplished in a short time — 
that is to say, the upper strata of some forty or 
fifty miles were fully condensed, and to that 
extent, hardened before the lower strata had 
hardly made a start in condensation, but they 



66 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

did condense, and the shrinkage not only brought 
great pressure on the lava core of the earth, but 
lessened the diameter and size of the earth by 
the strata becoming thinner and shorter in their 
length, which caused them to shrink away from 
the upper or outer strata, and as the upper strata 
had to go down, and at the same time their 
length was too great, then came the raising, 
lowering, warping and folding of the upper 
strata to shorten their length, so that a goodly 
portion could rest on the strata below, and this 
was the cause of the undulating surface of the 
earth, which has, to some extent, been changed 
by abrasions of down-flow of water and water- 
courses. 

One part of the upper strata settled down to 
a lodgement on the strata below, and three, five, 
ten, twenty, or even one hundred miles away, 
another part would settle to a resting place, 
leaving a great cavern from three to one hun- 
dred miles in extent, and from a few hundred 
feet to a mile in height, and the whole upper 
strata of the earth is just permeated with these 
great caverns. Many of these great caverns have 
no water in them, and are filled with gas and 
petroleum oil, pressed from the great coal-fields 



WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES? 67 

by the weight of the overla3dng strata, the 
pressure of the oil and gas being sufficient to 
force the water out. When two thousand feet 
thick of the ceiling, and fifty miles long and 
wide by a diagonal slip breaks down, and falls 
three thousand feet and jars the surface of the 
earth for five hundred miles around, then we 
say we had a big earthquake, and when two 
hundred feet thick of the ceiling, ten miles long 
and wide, breaks loose and falls one thousand 
feet, we say we had a little earthquake. In the 
earthquake of New Madrid in 1811, the cavern 
broke through from the surface. When there is 
an eruption from an extinct crater of a moun- 
tain peak, it is an eruption of a volcano, not an 
earthquake, even if it does shake the surround- 
ing region. 

It is unsafe to build skyscraper buildings, as 
the location of the great caverns are not known, 
but more safe on or near the mountains where 
there are no extinct craters, than on the ordi- 
nary level country. The great cave in South 
Missouri, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and 
Kent's Cavern in India are samples of such 
caverns on a small scale. The actual united 
thickness of the stratified portion of earth from 



68 FACTS, TRUTHS AXD EEASOX. 

the surface down to the molten lava, is not, and 
probably never will be, known, as a calculation 
of the temperature from the surface down by 
arithmetical ratio would probably fail, as it is 
likely that a great portion of the lower strata 
has nearly an even temperature, by the heat 
from below and cold from above. How deep 
down in the earth these caverns exist cannot be 
knoY/n, but eAddentlv thev are more numerous 
from five to thirty miles of the surface. In 
summing up the work of great ages, VN'e realize 
the complete earth, and intelligence acting on 
origination developed animal life, which first 
appeared on the great continents around the 
poles, and there was where the great animals, 
feasting on vegetation, and on each other as 
vegetation decreased by the change of climate 
and the encroachment of the water vrhich finally 
covered the whole earth, and the climate being 
frigid, these great animals perished where their 
bones and bodies are found frozen in ice and 
earth matter near the poles, and their bones are 
also found a great distance from the poles, 
where thev have been carried bv the fioatin?^ 
icefields. Xow we have the earth covered ^dth 
water, a ghttering spheroid, as it svrings on its 



WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES? 69 

orbit in eternal ethereal space. Then by the 
great weight of the water, and the stratifications, 
and their contractions on the great caloric core 
of the earth which brought it under such great 
pressure, that it exploded and bursted the earth 
from pole to pole, and raised South America, 
North America, Greenland, and many islands 
of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and leaving 
many active volcanoes ¥/hich relieved the pres- 
sure for another great age. While these conti- 
nents and islands v/ere raised up, the lands now 
the bottom of the ocean, were lowered in nearly 
the sam.e proportion. — Of the volcanoes then 
made, many became choked and died away to 
extinction, while the pressure increased during 
another long period of time, and resulted in 
bursting the earth from pole to pole again, rais- 
ing Africa, Europe, Asia^ and many islands of 
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and adding 
greatly to the number of volcanoes, there nov/ 
being from fifty to sixty in active eruption, and 
many more extinct — volcanoes that the core of 
the earth, can put in active eruption when the 
pressure so requires. 

Many of the mountain ranges thrown up in 
the great eruptions of the earth, the strata were 



70 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

not broken through to the lava, but many of 
the great internal caverns were broken down, 
preventing earthquakes in their immediate vi- 
cinity, making buildings more safe from earth- 
quakes than the undisturbed undulating coun- 
try. After the two great eruptions the heat 
given off warmed the water and air, and the 
climates beginning at and around the poles, 
and moving gradually to the equator, and the 
vegetable and animal life reappeared, resulting 
in the human being to use, control, and govern, 
to satisfy and make fruitful the adroitness of 
eternal, unlimited intelUgence. We do not know 
why the earth was, and is peopled, or why all 
other animals exist on the earth, nor we do not, 
nor can not, know why the human race occupies 
the earth, nor the exact process by which they 
were originated, and for what grand purpose in the 
grand plan of eternity and all Infinitude they 
are here to fill; but we do know that we exist 
and cease to exist, as the material in a human 
being is matter and all matter must change. 



Man's First Existence on the Earth 

Was on the Great Continents 

Around the Poles. 



CHAPTER 5. 



MAN'S FIRST EXISTENCE ON THE 
EARTH WAS ON THE GREAT 

CONTINENTS AROUND THE 
POLES. 

The great mammoths, with the flesh still on, 
and their skeletons, as well as the skeletons of 
other large animals, are found frozen in the ice 
and earth matter, probably over 50,000 years 
ago, or just after the post tertiary period, on the 
great continents, around the poles, which first 
had a tropical climate, and a moist, rich soil, 
assisted by the carbon in the atmosphere, caus- 
ing vegetation to come forth in im^mense 
quantities, making it possible for these gigantic 
animals to flourish there, and y/hen these con- 
tinents ¥/ere gradually covered with ocean water, 
and the climate becoming frigid, these great 
animals perished, and the icebergs carried them 
or their bones, together with millions of tons of 
rocks, gravel and earth matter, and where they 
grounded, melted and were left where they fell, 

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74 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASOX. 

covered by the earth matter. One great mam- 
moth^ ha^dng been left near Osceola, on the 
Osage River in Missouri, and its skeleton was un- 
covered and reclaimed bv Dr. Koch, conveved to 
Jefferson City by five hea^y wagons and shipped 
to the London museum, for which he received 
about fifty thousand dollars. St. Petersburg, 
Russia, now has a skeleton of a great mammoth 
found frozen in the ice of Xortheastern Siberia. 
The outline skeletons of the great animals 
found on the east slopes of the Roct\' Mountains 
shows them to have been ten times larger than 
the mammoth, which hkely found their present 
location by the floating ice fields. The femur 
bone that was in Barnum's museiun in Xew 
York City in 1862, fourteen inches in diameter, 
with a marrow ca^dtv larsie enouo:h to roll a ten- 
inch cannon ball in and out of it, indicating the 
whole bone to have been over sixteen feet long, 
with joint ends thirty inches in diameter. Just 
think of the size of the animal of which this 
bone was a part of his framework. A mammoth 
alongside of him would look like a goat alongside 
of a mammoth. Such a bone would indicate 
an animal 80 feet high, 150 feet long from eye to 
tail — not counting snout, tusk or tail — with hide 



man's first existence. 75 

from one to two feet thick, and a capacity to 
swallow a mammoth as easy as a duck could a 
June bug. Armour's packing force scattered over 
his carcass would look like a drove of little red 
ants scattered over the carcass of a 3,000 pound 
steer. It would take the longest railway train 
pulled by the biggest Mogul engine to move the 
contents of such an animal, and then stall on the 
first grade. Should he be on the right-of-way 
of a railway, and the train should interfere, he 
could with one paw, box it off the track with the 
ease that a grizzly bear could a small dog. If 
it were possible for him to be running around 
these days, and he should take a walk up the 
business street of New York City, and change 
his mind and turn around, with horn under 
archway, and with a flip of his tail, the sky- 
scrapers would tumble like a boy's cob house, 
and it is also likely that the people there were 
on the same grand scale, and that it were they 
who were cast away on some great ice float, and 
peopled the sunken continent of Atalanta. 

When the Western Hemisphere was raised 
above the ocean, Atalanta went down, the 
remnant of these great people, which still exist 
in Patagonia, from which these giants are traced 



76 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

by their human tracks in the solid stone of the 
Andes, Honduras, and under forty feet of quarry 
stone in Nevada, twenty-tv/o inches long and 
six inches ¥/ide, and probably originated on the 
great continent around the South Pole, near the 
close of the post tertiary period. The skeleton 
of a woman sixteen feet high, found in Southern 
Kentucky, whch it took tv/o gallons of rye to 
fill the inside of her skull. The human skeleton 
found in a phosphate bed in South Carolina, 
whose height was over seventeen feet, and was 
six feet across the shoulders, with head twenty- 
two inches in diameter, was likely one of the 
last of the Atlantas, from which the ocean takes 
its name. Also, the large human tracks in the 
solid stone in Western North Carolina, and human 
bones blasted out of the solid bedrock twelve 
feet below the ocean, from the bottom of the 
Saint John's River by United States Govern- 
ment while impro\dng the river, and all remem- 
ber the great Goliah a.nd giants of bible histGTj 
in Eastern Europe, which likely came from the 
north of Asia; all tending to confirm the con- 
tention that these great people that once in- 
habited the earth, came about the same time as 
the other great animals, and that all animate 



man's first existence. 77 

and inanimate life first came to the earth on the 
great continents around the poles, originated 
by the direct impulse of God, and likely were 
of much greater perfection than now, especially 
the people with their black skins, filthy habits, 
and dwarfed bodies. 

The expeditions to the North, so far, have 
been foolish child's play. If the United States 
and Great Britain would appropriate $20,000,000 
each year for five years to establish stations 
within easy reach of each other, and supply them 
along the coast of Greenland and thence north 
until the North Pole would be discovered re- 
ported on, and all placed on the map of the 
world. It might be that the North Pole would 
be a big round mountain several thousand feet 
above the sea, and all solid gold, with a big hole 
one hundred miles across, blowing carbon gas, 
with four hundred pounds pressure to the square 
inch, with the pole right in the middle, and all on 
fire to warm up and maintain an open polar sea, 
and a big gang of old Calif ornians sitting around 
waiting to take a load out in the summer. 

The idea of sending one old tub of a ship about 
half supplied, up north, and take one year to get 
there, and when there, bob around for three 



78 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

weeks, then load up with some aerolitic boulders 
that had fallen on the ice, and bring them to the 
United States to show the people, when they are 
to be found all over the United States, and a 
carload would sell for five dollars, to fill some 
mud hole. 

I was just thinking that I would like to be 
carried back about fifty thousand years, and 
meet those big men on a hunt, carrying guns 
twenty feet long, loaded for big game, with five 
pound balls; where would the Roosevelt cat 
hunters come in? Then I was in Dreamland. 
I was in the widest, finest and greatest road 
through an immense forest mingled with flowers 
large enough to sleep in over night. Then I saw 
a house. The doors about eight feet wide and 
twenty feet high. 

Then, I realized that I had really went fifty 
thousand years in the past, and was in a city 
of high houses and big doors. Then the big 
people gathered around me, and they understood 
all I said and gave me some grapes as big as the 
largest apples, and the men were large enough to 
carry two like me around in a hand-bag. They 
asked me who I was, and where I was from. I 
found that I could not talk of the past, but only 



man's first existence. 79 

of the present, and what I had learned. I told 
them that we little white people originated on 
the Ganges River in India, and had increased to 
hundreds of millions, made many inventions, 
carried commerce, education, enlightenment and 
civilization to all parts of the central portion of 
the great earth, that the little black people 
originated in hollow trees in Australia, and now 
number three-fourths of the little people on my 
part of the earth, and that they were the little 
white people's burden, and that the world 
would be a great deal better off without them; 
that their existence was a great mistake of the 
originating machinery, and it was a great mis- 
fortune, and now that we have found the best 
part of the earth and the greatest type of all the 
human race, that we would move over and live 
with them, and leave the little black people on 
the poor rocky soil, destroy the traveling stations 
burn the bridges, and never allow the black race 
to find the heaven of bliss. There we would rest 
under the great vines and fruit trees, and sleep 
sound, with nothing to disturb our slumbers; 
where no reptiles, poison insects, blue-tail flies 
or mosquitos are ever seen; cows that give a 
barrel of milk at a milking, bee hives as big as 



80 FA.CTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

a government courthouse, stingless bees as big 
as turkey gobblers, bringing a quart of honey 
each trip from flowers three yards across. 
Truly, the land of milk and honey, and with the 
fountain of youth to quench our thirst, keep us 
clean, young a.nd beautiful during life's limit of 
200 years. 

The ugly, the deformed, the imbecile, the im- 
perfect, the dwarf and criminals are given ex- 
tract of poppy, and sleep in peace which are so 
many barnacles cut off to purify the race, lessen 
crime, increase physical strength, longevity, 
beauty of form, and happiness of the living; 
then the harps of a thousand strings 50 feet high, 
and violins as big as street cars, dispensing music 
in harmony v\dth 5,000 singers that could be 
heard forty miles, the dance would go merrily on. 
Just think of the rustling of 200 yards of silk that 
each lady would wear, and the silk hats of the 
gentlemen that would hold four bushels of corn. 
These big mxen would want our pretty girls for 
Dolly Varden wives, and our little men could 
never get too much wife. She could spank him 
round when needed and carry him around in her 
hand satchel when he was too tired. O, wouldn't 
that be delightful! 



man's first existence. 81 

The people live temperate lives, they never 
pray, being honest, charitable, just and truth- 
ful; they have nothing to fear from a just, 
loving Divinity. When the time comes for 
them to die, they bid all good-bye, take their 
portion and sleep in peace, laid in the ground, 
no monuments allowed. They marry at matur- 
ity, ladies at fifty, gentlemen at sixty years, by 
application to the marriage commissioners, who 
have them examined by a board of five professors 
on human temperaments, as to their adaptability 
and effect that such a union might have on the 
intelligence, physical strength, perfection of 
form, and beauty of the human race, and if 
found satisfactory, the commissioners grant the 
permit, and the judge of matrimony performs 
the ceremony, pronouncing them man and wife, 
and gives them advice on good morals now that 
they are married for all time, and never divorced 
in life nor death, as no man or woman can be 
married but once. 

The number of children being limited to three 
by the marriage unions, and if the fourth child 
is born, they are heavily fined, and if the fifth 
child is born, the wife takes her portion and 
sleeps in peace. 



82 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

The laws are made by twenty out of forty 
patriarchs under a fixed constitution 40,000 
years old, who holds office during life, which is 
fixed at 300 years, and when one dies another 
one is added from the substitute twenty, the 
oldest coming first each time and the people elect 
another one to take his place. All executive 
officers serve one year only and without pay. 
Their duties being limited as all violations of the 
law mean death. In the list of small offenses 
the pardoning board can grant a pardon twice, 
but the third offense, no matter how trivial, 
means death. 

It is impossible to tell all that I saw and heard 
in this short article. When aroused from my 
slumber it appeared to me that I had been living 
with the great people, studying their laws and 
their ways for a whole year, when I had only 
slept two hours. If I could have slept longer 
I might have found out how long they had 
occupied the country and from where they came. 



What Constitutes the Universalum, or 

Orbit of the Universe (Solar 

System). 



CHAPTER 6. 



WHAT CONSTITUTES THE 

UNIVERSALUM, OR ORBIT OF THE 

UNIVERSE (SOLAR SYSTEM). 

The Universe is such amount of ethereal space 
as is occupied by the Planets, Asteroids and 
Satellites as they revolve around the sun. The 
Universalum is such amount of ethereal space 
as is enclosed by the ellipse or orbit of the 
Universe or Universes, as they revolve around 
some great magnetic center, whose force holds 
them to their orbits, and there may be many 
universes in the Universalum at great or less 
distance from the great magnetic center, as per 
their composition to receive or reject the 
magnetic force governing them. The ellipse, 
or boundary of the Universalum, is of such 
extent that the universe, moving at the rate of 
500,000,000 miles a year, it would require about 
200,000 years to make one trip or one Univer- 
salum year, and the great sun star Arcturus, 
probably 50,000 times larger than our sun, is 

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86 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

near the south end of the eUipse, and the star 
Polaris, near the north end of the eUipse, and 
as our changing cUmates are now moving to 
and toward the equator, indicating that the 
universe is now about half way in its onward 
sweep towards the Polaris end of the ellipse, 
and will sweep past that perfect cold region in 
about 50,000 years, where most of the Planets, 
Asteroids and Satellites of the solar system are 
enveloped in that deep unwakable sleep of 
absolute zero, and as it sweeps south for about 
35,000 years, the rays of our sun aided by the 
rays of the great sun star Arcturus, caused the 
equatorial frigid climate to be converted into 
the temperate climate, and temperate climate 
into the tropical climate, and the tropical climate 
into the torrid climate, and all move to the poles; 
vegetable and animal life reappear and exist on 
the earth for about 50,000 years, and disappear 
when the universe is about 15,000 years to its 
nearest proximity to the great sun star Arcturus, 
about 100,000,000 miles due south of it, where 
the heat is incandescent Caloric and where cold 
is never known, and will be converted into 
aeriform fluid and fully charged with incan- 
descent Caloric to last until it returns from its 



WHAT CONSTITUTES THE UNIVERSALUM. 87 

great whirl around the Polaris end of the ellipse, 
while the universe in its onward sweep towards 
the Polaris end of the ellipse for about 35,000 
years; the earth will be reformed and be the 
happy abode of animal and vegetable life for 
about 50,000 years; and the climates beginning 
at and around the poles, first the torrid climate, 
then the tropical climate, then the temperate 
climate, then the frigid climate, and all move 
to the equator. At which time the universe 
will be about 15,000 years of its nearest proxim- 
ity to the star Polaris, and when the frigid 
climate holds the equator in its grasp, the uni- 
verse is then due north of the star Polaris, about 
100,000,000 miles, sweeping again south for 
about 35,000 years where the universe will 
dress in new spring suit, and smile on another 
celestial spring, summer and fall of 50,000 years. 
Let it be observed that vegetable and animal 
life cease to exist and reappear twice on the 
earth, and many other planets in every univer- 
salum year, once after heat and once after cold, 
and that the earth and other planets are un- 
formed and reformed once in each universalum 
year. 

The foundation of all language, all laws of the 



88 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

heavens and the earth, are based on opposition, 
or the positive and negative principle. Where 
there is a positive, there must be a negative. 
Where there is heat, there must be cold. All 
the most intelligent thinkers of ancient and 
modern times are firm in the belief that there is 
a hot place and a cold place on the orbit of the 
universe. Heat forms everything constructed 
out of matter. Heat unforms and reforms 
everything that is made, as without heat no 
change can take place in matter or material 
things having a body substance. The above 
outlined description of the orbit of the universe 
and extent of universalum, and the manner of 
operation, are purely my own ideas, and their 
is no contention that the time and distance given 
are correct, as there are not enough astronomical 
facts known, to give anything definite as to time 
and distance of the orbit of the universe, or the 
extent of the universalum, and probably never 
will be known. The Great Caloric Body that 
works over and transforms Satellites, Asteroids, 
Planets and Universes, may be the great sun 
star Vega, Arcturus, Procyon or some other 
great luminary, it matters not, so the results 
materialize. With the surface of the earth at 



WHAT CONSTITUTES THE UNIVERSAL UM. 89 

the equator going east over 1,000 miles an hour, 
and the earth at the same time sweeping its orbit 
about 63,000 miles an hour, and the universe 
with our world, all the Planets, Asteroids and 
Satellites, sweeping an indefinite but great and 
unknown distance in the great speed of its orbit, 
outlining the boundary of the great Universalum, 
with 10,000 Universalums extending in all direc- 
tions, each enlarging 10,000 fold on the one left 
behind; ad infinitum, until a thousand milky- 
ways have been pulled down and cast to the rear, 
still there is a hot place, and a cold place, dura- 
tion, motion, pov/er, force, magnetism, gravita- 
tion, contraction, expansion, attraction, repul- 
sion, electricity, vegetable and animal life, light, 
darkness, ethereal space filled with earth matter, 
broken stones. Nebulas, Satellites, Asteroids, 
Planets, Suns, Universes, Universalums, thou- 
sands of brilliant stars and milky ways still in 
sight, with the greatest of them all. Intelligence 
(God), to govern and control all throughout 
infinitude. (Plenty of space for human souls, 
but where?) 



The Eternal Things that Never were 

Created and Never will be 

Destroyed nor Cease 

to Exist. 



CHAPTER 7. 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER 

WERE CREATED AND NEVER WILL 

BE DESTROYED NOR CEASE TO 

EXIST. 

1st. Eternal, Unlimited, Unchangeable Ether- 
eal Space. 

2nd. Eternal, Unlimited, Unchangeable Dura- 
tion. 

3rd. Eternal, Unlimited, Undestroyable Mat- 
ter. 

4th. Eternal, Unlimited, Caloric and Negative 
Cold. 

5th. Eternal, Unlimited Light and Negative 
Darkness. 

6th. Eternal, Unlimited Attraction and Repul- 
sion. 

7th. Eternal, Unlimited Power, Motion and 
Force. 

8th. Eternal, Unlimited, Unchangeable Natur- 
al Law. 

9th. Eternal, Unlimited Orbital Motion of 
Planets and Comets. 

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94 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

10th. Eternal, Unlimited Power that controls 
Orbital Motion. 

11th. Eternal, UnUmited Electricity and its At- 
tractions. 

12th. Eternal, Unlimited Cohesive Attraction, 
Contraction and Expansion. 

13th. Eternal, Unlimited Gravitation Attrac- 
tion. 

14th. Eternal, Unlimited Structural Affinity in 
Formations. 

15th. Eternal, Unlimited Origination and Dis- 
semination. 

16th. Eternal, Unlimited Animate and Inani- 
mate Life. 

17th. Eternal, Unlimited Terrestrial and Polar 
Magnetism. 

18th. Eternal, Unlimited Diversity in Forma- 
tions. 

19th. Eternal, Unlimited Change of Matter in 
Formations. 

20th. Eternal, Unlimited, Unchangeable Intel- 
ligence. 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 95 

There can be no limit to ethereal space. If we 
were carried through ethereal space one million 
miles per second for one hundred million years, 
we could see from the place where we stopped, 
as many stars and planets as we can now see. 
The duration, the caloric, the cold, the light, the 
darkness, the attraction, the repulsion, the 
power, the force, the orbital motion of planets 
and comets, the natural law, the electricity, the 
cohesive attraction, the contraction, the expan- 
sion, the gravitation attraction, the attraction 
of structural affinity in formations, the origina- 
tion, the dissemination, the animate and inami- 
nate life, the terrestrial and polar magnetism, 
the diversity in formation, the unlimited change 
in matter, are all eternal things to be and re- 
main in ethereal space and duration as the at- 
tributes of, and controlled by the eternal, un- 
limited, unchangeable intelligence, the Emanuel, 
the Deity, the God, in all things. The greatest 
of all things that has an existence in the eternal, 
unlimited ethereal space. Intelligence, life, ca- 
loric, and matter enters into the construction 
of all mankind, the just and the unjust. Intel- 
ligence, life, caloric, and matter enters into the 
construction of every living animate thing, from 



96 FACTS. TRUTHS AND REASON. 

the smallest insect to the greatest mammoths 
and whales, and in death and dissemination 
their bodies, being matter, return to the earth, 
and the intelligence, life and caloric, being 
eternal things, having no body substance, still 
exist in infinitude, each in its own ideality. No 
part of the eternal things is ever lost or destroyed. 
The same intelligence, life, caloric and matter that 
has existed in all past eternity is still in existence 
and in use at the present time, and for all future 
time. 

A school house is a place where, by precept, 
the mind is made competent to absorb intelli- 
gence that has existed throughout eternity. 
What is it that causes the breast and lungs to 
expand the first time, and the oxygenated air to 
rush into the lungs, giving the first breath and 
perfecting life — it is the expansion and contrac- 
tion of eternity acted on by intelligence. Light, 
one of the attributes of caloric, is of such im- 
portance that the whole plan of the heavens 
would be a failure without it, and darkness is of 
equal importance, as all animate and inanimate 
life is conceived in darkness. 

Caloric, acted on by intelligence, forms and 
unforms all material things. Intelligence can- 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 97 

not do anything only in harmony with the na- 
tural law. Intelligence cannot do an impos- 
sibility. — There is no forgiveness in natural law. 
If violated, the penalty is certain. — Love, ama- 
tiveness, benevolence, kindness, charity, virtue, 
forgiveness, justice, truth and righteousness are 
the higher attributes of life. All mankind are 
prone to do good, right and justice, but commit 
sins, crimes, violate natural law, and do evil 
deeds by premeditation and persuasive influ- 
ences. Intelligence can originate and bring into 
existence and disseminate animal and vegetable 
formations, constructed out of matter that 
exists, and cause life to enter therein, but cannot 
create the matter or the life. — Intelligence, act- 
ing on caloric, orbital motion, power and force, 
can disintegrate, unform and re-form worlds, 
planets, comets and all heavenly bodies con- 
structed out of matter, but cannot create orbital 
motion, power, force or matter. After the most 
careful, exhaustive and profound investigation 
of the formation, structure and adaptability of 
the earth and its attributes, all human reason 
shows that it was made by a very high order of 
intelligence. In all the eternal, unlimited, un- 
changeable ethereal space, matter — solid, liquid, 



98 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

gaseous or aeriform — is the only thing that con- 
tains a material body substance. There is no 
substance in the unoccupied ethereal space. 
There is no substance in duration. 

There is no substance in caloric. There is no 
substance in cold. There is no substance in 
light. There is no substance in darkness. There 
is no substance in attraction. There is no sub- 
stance in repulsion. There is no substance in 
power. There is no substance in motion. There 
is no substance in force. There is no substance 
in the natural law. There is no substance in 
orbital motion of planets and comets. There is 
no substance in the power that controls orbital 
motion. There is no substance in electricity or 
its attractions. 

There is no substance in cohesive attraction, 
contraction or expansion. There is no substance 
in gravitation attraction. There is no substance 
in structural afSnity or any other affinity. There 
is no substance in origination. There is no sub- 
stance in dissemination. There is no substance 
in animate or inanimate life. There is no sub- 
stance in terrestrial and polar magnetism or its 
attractions. There is no substance in diversity 
in formation. There is no substance in the 



THE ETERNAL THINGS TEAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 99 

change in matter in formations. There is no 
substance in intelUgence, which has for its attri- 
butes everything in the eternal unhmited un- 
changeable ethereal space. The highest, the 
greatest, the superlative, the supreme essence, 
the Emanuel, the Deity, the God that controls 
and rules the heavens and earth. There always 
has been great differences of opinion as to what 
is meant by the words ^^God'' or ^^ Deity.'' 
Put 100 men in a room and bring out one at a 
time and ask each to write down what he con- 
siders constitutes "God.'' And when 100 have 
so written what they consider constitutes ^^God," 
you will find you have 100 Gods all different in 
their make-up and character. I say there is 
but one God, and that God is Intelligence. 



CHAPTER 8. 



A human being is composed of four eternal 
things — inteUigence, Hfe, caloric and matter, and 
when intelligence, life and caloric separates from 
the body, the body is matter. The application 
of personality or gender to intelligence (God) is 
simply a great stretch of the imagination, and 
the theory set up by the clergy, that the earth 
was made especially to develop human spirit 
bodies with a personal identity, which at death 
passed from the earth in countless numbers to 
an eternal celestial abode of endless happiness 
or endless punishment, is an apologue myth. 
The object of such credulity is for the purpose 
of obtaining wealth and support during life from 
the ignorance of the human race. The argu- 
ments are always the same by all of the hundreds 
of church denominations. Pay the priest, sup- 
port the church, and your eternal happiness is 
assured. But if you do not pay the clergy and 
support the church, then an eternal hell of dam- 
nation awaits you. There is not now, or ever 
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THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 101 

was, a spiritual body. Such expressions as the 
spirit of man, the spirit of God, God's spirit, 
spirit of the Lord, good spirit, evil spirit, Christ's 
spirit, spirit that walketh, angel of the Lord, 
spiritual being, etc., are all mythical expressions, 
do not and should not convey any meaning, as 
there is no God except Intelligence, and Intelli- 
gence has no real body or spiritual body. In- 
telligence can pass through the greatest intensity 
of caloric, greatest light, greatest darkness, 
around the world, through cold steel, under the 
ocean, to the bottom of the sea and without 
limit in ethereal space. There is but one thing 
that has any body substance, and that is matter. 
Matter constitutes the body of all the planets 
and their attendant satellites, and the body of 
all the great caloric suns that store and radiate 
the caloric (heat) to all parts of the Eternal Un- 
limited Ethereal Space and Infinitude. Matter 
is the body of all animals and vegetation on the 
Earth, or that may be on any of the other 
planets, all or most of which are likely in- 
habited. 



CHAPTER 9. 



The sectarian fanatical denominational ex- 
pounder will stand and turn his eyes the reverse 
of gravitation, and offer up his prayers to his 
imaginary God up in Heaven above him. Now 
suppose he stood in the same position for twelve 
hours, his eyes would be looking in exactly the 
opposite direction from when he commenced to 
pray. The religious fanatic beUeves that there 
is some place away from the earth in ethereal 
space, a Heavenly abode where the spirit of the 
just go to after death. At the same time there 
is no such thing as spirit or God other than In- 
telligence, and ten miles from the earth the cold 
is about 1000 degrees below zero, and further 
out still colder. The word spirit as applied to 
eternal life is a myth, and has no meaning. 
There is nothing eternal in a human being ex- 
cept Intelligence, life, caloric, and matter, 
and neither Intelligence, life, or caloric has a 
body of any kind of substance, or any personal 
identity. The words Father, Son and Holy 
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THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 103 

Ghost is another myth not in the Bible, and 
has no meaning. Then that trinity business is 
all mythology, and will not stand the force of 
reason and criticism. There is no personality in 
Intelligence (God) nor three personal identities 
doubled up in one Godhead. The so-called 
scriptures has never brought peace and good 
will to the human race, but war, turmoil and 
strife since their introduction, and the people 
that inhabit the earth would be a hundredfold 
more blessed if the scriptures had been sunk in 
the deep ocean thousands of years ago and for- 
gotten. There is something over thirteen hun- 
dred million people on the earth. Now suppose 
they all believed in some kind of an imaginary 
personal God, and all of them of responsible 
age, say eight hundred million would the same 
day, all round the earth, stand and pray to 
their imaginary God. They would all pray to a 
different God, as no two human beings ever has, 
nor never will, make their imaginations the 
same. The eternal diversity makes it impossi- 
ble for any two things on this earth or in the 
eternal, unlimited heavens to be the same, and 
never can be exactly alike. Here we have that 
immense throng with their head the reverse 



104 FACTS, TRUTHS XKB EK^.SON. 

way of gravitation, making their supplications 
for their wrong doings, asking forgiveness, 
praising and glorifying their imaginary God 
with great babble and roar, as they ride the 
earth from west to east over one thousand miles 
an hour, and being hurled through ethereal space 
on the line of the earth's orbital motions over 
sixty-three thousand miles an hour. Forty bil- 
lion human beings come on the earth and leave 
in one thousand years, and when Intelligence, 
life, and caloric separate from their bodies, their 
bodies being matter, returns to the earth, and 
Intelligence, life, and caloric being eternal, re- 
mains in eternity. 

Therefore, the intelligence in human beings is 
the Emanuel — the God of eternity, and the life in 
the human being is eternal life, and never ceases 
to exist. When Intelligence, life, and caloric sep- 
arate from the human or animal body, we call 
such segregation death, but there is no destruc- 
tion, for no part of the eternal things can be de- 
stroyed. The body is matter, and the Intelli- 
gence, Ufe, and caloric still exist in eternity. 
The theory set up by bigoted sectarianism, Ju- 
daism and priest-craft, that Intelligence, life, 
and caloric, when they leave the human body, 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 105 

still have a personal identity in a spiritual body, 
and become eternal and exist somewhere in 
ethereal space in a state of endless happiness or 
endless damnation, is mythology by which the 
priest and the clergy live sumptuously from the 
sweat of the brow of ignorance by such hypoc- 
risy. No human being ever has, or ever will be 
able to fathom the eternal things or the extent 
of the supreme plan of eternity. 

Origination and dissemination, when acted 
upon by intelligence, cause the human race and 
other animals with their bodies constructed out 
of matter, combined with Intelligence, life, and 
caloric, to inhabit the earth, but their existence 
is limited, as all matter continues to change, 
and by death and disintegration they pass away, 
and others of their kind take their place, but 
the object and purpose of such habitation is a 
secret and hidden attribute of eternity, which 
no man has ever known, or ever will know. No 
clergyman or priest does know of any reward or 
punishment for the human race after death. 
Eternity, and all the attributes of eternity, are 
all silent on that subject, and when they preach 
of the glories, joys and happiness of their imagi- 
nary heaven, and the tortures of damnation in 



106 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

their imaginary hell, just count all such ignorant 
twaddle as mythology, the larger part of their 
stock in trade in their business. Excepting in 
a few moral precepts the Jewish and Christian 
religions are no better than Buddhism, Moham- 
medanism or Brahmanical religions. True re- 
ligion is the same in all the human race. The 
attributes of true religion are Love, Truth, Jus- 
tice, Honesty, Charity, Forgiveness, Kindness, 
Virtue, Morality, Chastity, Uprightness, Sympa- 
thy, Benevolence and Goodness, which, if pos- 
sessed by any human being, that human being 
has religion of the superlative degree, in any 
race or country. Every human being should 
strive to absorb and possess true religion, and 
strive to be good, and make others good and 
happy while here on earth. Should also declare 
their independence and become free men and 
women, and make a study of their best interest, 
and for the best interest of all others, dispensing 
charity and enforcing good morals. 



CHAPTER 10. 



The two great barnacles of the human race are 
the gamblers and the priests or preachers. The 
business of both are on the same hypothesis, 
that ignorance owes them a living and support 
during life. Both dress sumptuously, both 
despise labor, both hate each other because 
what the gamblers get the priests or preachers 
think they should have had. The gamblers 
entice, beguile, lay get-rich-quick schemes of 
promised great wealth in money and the good 
things of this world; for all which the ignorant 
piles their hard earned money into his lap of 
fortune, never to be returned. 

The preachers or priests belabors and expound 
their scriptural mythology that every human 
being is full of sin and iniquity, and that all 
sinners not redeemed through and by the church, 
after death, go to an eternal hell of damnation, 
but if they will join the church, pay the priest 
or preacher, and support the church, that after 
death they will go to an eternal heaven of glory 

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108 FACTS, TRUTHS AXD REASON. 

and happiness^ and that the money so paid is 
treasure laid up in heaven to their credit. For 
all of which the ignorant piles their hard earned 
money into the priests or preacher's lap of fortune 
never to return in this world or any world to 
come. For a thousand years prior to 1850, it 
was a dead scramble with about evenlv di^dded 
either way as to who would get the money of 
the ignorant, the gamblers or the priests and 
preachers. But since 1850, the laws of the 
United States, and other nations governing 
corporations, freight rates and trade have so 
favored the gamblers that they have got the 
greater part of money and wealth of the world, 
and are soon to get the rest unless there is some 
great change made from the present status of 
affairs, for the benefit of the human race. The 
clerg}', the priests and the preachers are in- 
vesting their salary in get-rich-quick schemes. 
Gambhng in lotteries and board of trade gambl- 
ing dens, showing that they beUeve that a dollar 
in hand here on the earth is better than a thou- 
sand beyond the grave in an imaginar\^ heaven. 
Over hah the people (and the most intelligent 
as well) in the United States do not beheve in the 
Jewish or Christian rehgions, and half of them 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 109 

that join such churches do so to stand in with 
the church people to get their money, trade, and 
votes at the election, on the basis of catch them 
going and catch them coming, as the church is 
just the best place on earth to set a trap for 
fools. When the people first came on the 
earth, some of the most crafty soon discovered 
that all mankind feared death, and took out 
perpetual letters patent on that fear. The 
people not only desired to live here on the earth, 
but they also desired to live after death. This 
has been the bulwarks of all church worship, 
and is the bulk of priest and preachercraft's 
stock-in-trade in their business, by building up 
a great heaven and a great hell beyond the 
grave, and by making it possible for the priest 
or preacher to send the mythical souls to an 
eternal heaven or to an eternal hell of damnation. 
Money paid the priest or preacher takes the 
mythical soul to heaven, but if you pay no money 
the way to hell is sure. 



CHAPTER 11. 



Then comes mythology expounding eternal life 
after death, and as there were good people and 
bad people, and the good people did not want to 
have the bad people go where they would go, 
then comes more mythology with a great eternal, 
imaginary heaven of glory, joy and happiness, 
for the good people, and a great imaginary hell 
of damnation for the bad people. Then in order 
to sort out the good people from the bad people, 
comes more mythology proclaiming universal 
sin, that all were bad and none fit for heaven, 
only those who would repent of their evil deeds, 
join the church, pay the priests, and support 
the church, could ever enter into and dwell in the 
eternal heaven: and all that were not redeemed 
through the church would go after death to an 
eternal hell of damnation. 

By such accepted mythology, priest-craft 

ruled supreme on earth, but there must be a 

ruler for heaven and ruler for hell. Then comes 

more mythology with an imaginary God in the 

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THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. Ill 

form of a man, as supreme ruler of the heaven 
and the earth, with shining luster of glory, 
justice, goodness, forgiveness, and happiness; 
and with an imaginary devil, also in the form of 
a man, as supreme ruler of the eternal hell, 
whose every thought and evil intent was to 
torture with unrelenting punishment of dam- 
nation the unredeemed after death. 

Here we have a vision shown up before us of an 
eternal trust in the profits of the earnings of the 
ignorant of the human race. Priest-craft, ex- 
pounding on the sublimity of their imaginary 
God, and the glories and happiness of their 
imaginary heaven, that the redeemed go to and 
possess forever and forever in eternity; having 
repented, joined the church, paid the priests, and 
supported the church. But if they reject the 
offer that their imaginary God will say to them 
after death : ^^ Depart, ye cursed, to the hell of 
damnation prepared for those that reject the 
church. '^ The orator belabors the congregation 
with his oily tongue, and even sheds tears of 
sympathy for the unrelenting and unregenerate 
until the boys and girls, and older people with 
more age than intelligence, tremble with fear, 
as they are told and made believe, that all are 



112 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON 

full of sin and iniquity, and that they only can 
escape eternal punishment by repentance 
through the church. He tells all to come, 
though their sins be mountain high, ye heavy 
laden with the most vile sins and blackest crimes 
of villany, by the grace of God's redemption all 
will be wiped away, and that they will dwell 
with God in the glorious heaven of peace and 
happiness. So while the brothers and sisters 
sing doxology, comes to God's redemption 
before it is everlastingly too late, and there is a 
grand rush, and a great many connect themselves 
with the church, and their hard earned money 
with the preacher's pocket, which is the object 
to be accomplished by the whole scheme of 
mythical dead beat from start to finish. So it 
is now and has been in all time past. If the 
priest or preacher is not paid he ceases all interest 
in trying to help the Lord save souls. A God 
that needs help and is a needy God is worse than 
no God. The priest and preacher say they are 
working for the Lord. 



CHAPTER 12. 



The great number of hallucinations, exaggera- 
tions, unmitigated lies, perfidy and falsehoods 
based on mythological imaginations (that no 
intelligent human being would ever believe) 
that are scattered throughout the scriptures 
fully illustrates the ignorance of the untutored 
and unlearned people that existed where and 
when the scriptures were written, and for the 
howling clergy, priests and preachers to still be 
trying to stuff an enlightened people with such 
ignorant mythical twaddle is a disgrace to the 
human race, and that is the reason the most 
intelligent people of the world do not attend the 
churches. Lies and falsehoods are lies and 
falsehoods no matter where they are found. The 
so-called scriptures, loaded with mythical ex- 
aggeration, misrepresentations, lies and false- 
hoods, are unbelievable and unworthy of belief 
or acceptance as truth by the enlightened 
nations of the earth; but their great age lend 
enchantment to still make them attractive to the 
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114 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

superstitious and uninformed people of the hu- 
man race, but more so when forced on them 
by government protection and influence, by 
Sunday laws, and otherwise depriving the people 
of the liberty of human conscience. Then that 
Saint John's mj^hical bird cage city, 1,500 
miles square on the foundation, and the same 
in height, with outside walls about 200 feet 
thick, and the whole on only 12 foundations, 
with the gates 300 miles apart, and I suppose 
the elevators being run by gravitation attraction, 
reversed at will by the operator, sending them 
up 1,500 miles and down again with perfect 
safety, and all could have a change of climate at 
any time, as the top story would be about 1500 
degrees below zero. Talk about fixing the 
ground for a world's fair site, as when the 
people got word it was coming, there would 
be some rustling around to get the foundation 
ready, moving mountains, and leveling up 1,500 
miles square. 

The newly embodied righteous dead are all 
to walk on the inside of the city, but the rail- 
ways would have business carrying the ten 
hundred thousand billions of the righteous dead 
and just a few living saints. In ancient times 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 115 

there were plenty of saints, but they are al- 
mighty scarce these days. Then walking would 
be good with the streets so nicely paved, and 
the gates only 300 miles apart. The distance 
from the center of the city to the gates would 
be only 750 miles, but a walking angel could 
make that easy enough before breakfast. 

Then again, while the 1500 mile square cube 
city was being lowered to the earth by a myth- 
ical cable hooked fast to ethereal space, and the 
surface of the earth at the same time moving 
from west to east 1000 miles an hour, there 
might be some difficulty in landing it just square 
and plumb on the foundation; say somewhere 
about the central part of North America, and if 
the gravitation attraction and the rotary motion 
of the earth were the same as now, the whole 
thing — mythical God, angels, saints and all, 
would be landed in the North Atlantic ocean, 
connecting America with Europe and Asia, and 
raising the ocean water, inundating all low 
countries and coast towns and cities of the 
earth. 

When we knov/ that an aerolite stone of a ton 
weight, by gravitation attraction is drawn to the 
earth with sufficient force to penetrate the solid 



116 FACTS, TRUTHS AXD REASON. 

earth from 20 to 40 feet, we can get some idea 
of the force that Saint John's mythical city 
would strike the earth, and where it would go 
to, with the surface of the earth at the same 
time going east 1,000 miles an hour. Saint 
John, the poor old imbecile, did not know that 
the earth was round, that it turned over every 
24 hours, that there was any gravitation attrac- 
tion, that 10 miles from the earth the cold was 
about 1,000 degrees below zero, or that no hu- 
man being could live ten miles from the earth, 
not even a mythical god ; and if he was roaming 
around in any part of the United States, he 
would be in the insane asylum in less than a 
week. And still the preachers quote extensively 
from Saint John's Revelations. 

The United States should not protect mission- 
aries on any part of the earth not under the 
jurisdiction of the United States. They have 
no business there, and no legal right there, and 
they cause national complications much to our 
disadvantage, and do harm instead of good to 
the people where they go. The money spent in 
that way should go to the poor and destitute at 
home, who need eveiy dollar that charity can 
furnish. The liberal minded people should build 



THE ETERNAL THINGS THAT NEVER WERE CREATED. 117 

for themselves nice lecture halls, where they 
could meet in intellectual intercourse, and in 
that way acquire knowledge of the heavens, 
earth, eternal things, and eradicate mythology 
and mythological influences from mankind. 

A priest or preacher could be called in and 
deliver one of his soul-saving sermons. Then 
would come a first-class critic to overhaul and 
cut out all the faulty and mythical twaddle, and 
false and erroneous things set forth in the 
sermon. And in that way the true facts, truths 
and reason that come before the attendants 
could be ascertained, and in that way the people 
would become more wise, and bigotry, and 
church dogmas would disappear. 



Criticisms on the Fabulous Lies 
in the Bible. 



CHAPTER 13. 



CRITICISMS ON THE FABULOUS 
LIES IN THE BIBLE. 

In the beginning, (lie). There never was any 
beginning. God created the Heavens and the 
Earth, (lie). God never created any of the 
eternal things. If so, who created God. The 
eternal things such as Intelligence (God) ethereal 
space, duration, matter, caloric, and all other 
eternal things have a co-existence and co-extent 
throughout all past and future eternity. 

The whole of Genesis is a mythological fable, 
fabrication, fiction and falsehood, intended to 
deceive, control and rule the ignorant people in 
favor of the Levites and priestcraft. The whole 
of the bible from start to finish was, and is 
based on mythology and false foundation. First 
an imaginary God, in the form of man, who had 
sons, and by inference, a he God, a she God, 
sons and daughters. No masculine gender can 
exist without a feminine gender. There can be 

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122 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

no sons without there are daughters. No posi- 
tive without a negative. This great, powerful, 
ahnighty, mascuUne God, possessed of all past 
and future knowledge throughout the past and 
future eternity being embraced in his make-up; 
when pleased was all love, justice, kindness, 
tenderness, forbearance and forgiveness; but if 
some of his poor, ignorant people disobeyed by 
error or lack of knowledge. His wrath knew no 
bounds. He created a great heaven, and he 
created a great hell. He created a good people 
whose future existence would forever dwell in 
his great, eternal heaven; and he created a bad 
people whose future existence would forever 
dwell in his great eternal hell; and he created a 
great devil to rule over his great hell, and nick- 
named him Satan, and when the sons of God 
made a feast Satan was there in council with 
God in regard to their mixed business. 

He created man, and did such poor work it 
grieved Him at his heart, and he repented and 
got old Noah to help him out of a bad job, and 
took a new start. The spirit of God moved, so 
he also had a spirit to succeed him in some su- 
perlative God Heaven, being the same as man a 
stepping-stone to a future imaginary mythical 



CRITICISMS ON THE FABULOUS LIES IN THE BIBLE. 123 

existence, and at the same time there is no such 
thing as spirit in InteUigence (God) or man. All 
such writings are pure, simple bombast. The 
idea that Intelligence (God) that fills all past 
and future eternity would or could make mis- 
takes, and be grieving and repenting is too silly 
to be considered by the Hottentots in the 
jungles of Africa. 

Mistakes are made for the want of Intelli- 
gence. Who ever heard of an inexhaustible In- 
telligence that fills all eternity getting tired, and 
this mythical want of rest was a scheme of 
sham and deceit to foist a Sunday on the hu- 
man race for the benefit of the Levites and 
priestcraft to filch tithes and money from the 
ignorant people, backed by Sunday laws pre- 
venting them from working and attending to 
their own business as they might have needi- 
ness and desire to do, and by social and political 
ostracism, force them under the sway and pay 
to the preachers and priestcraft, against their 
will and better judgment; and if any man ex- 
presses his doubts in regard to the scriptural 
mythology, or the mythological tenets and dog- 
mas taught in all the churches on all parts of the 
earth, he is pounced upon by the clergy, priests 



124 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

and preachers in defense of their dogmatic my- 
thology. Not that he commits any sin, harm, 
injury or damage to the human race, for what 
he does is a great benefit to all mankind. But 
it is because his opinions so expressed causes 
the people to think for themselves, and steer 
clear of such barnacles, and prevents them from 
filching money, a living and support during life, 
from the ignorant and unsuspecting, misguided 
people. There never was a human being that 
walked on unfrozen water; there never was a 
human being in a whalers stomach three days 
and then returned alive. The whalers stomach 
would have completely digested and disposed 
of him within the time. There never was a 
human being who went up to heaven, as there 
is no such place up there. Up means straight 
away from the center of the earth in all direc- 
tions. There never was a human being, dead 
or alive, that left this earth, nor never will be. 
The body is part of the earth, and Intelligence, 
life, and caloric being eternal, remains in 
eternity. 

The words — Deity, God, Lord, Almighty, Je- 
hovah and such expressions as God sees, God saw, 



CRITICISMS ON THE FABULOUS LIES IN THE BIBLE. 125 

God looks, God smiles, God glorified, God helped, 
God moved, God walked, God talked, etc., are 
allegorical expressions allowable in language, 
not real, as God does not need to see, hear, 
feel, taste or smell, as God is everywhere, in 
everything, in ethereal space or infinitude. God 
is Intelligence, and acts from an infinite source, 
and not from a finite source. The eternal orig- 
ination originates all animal and vegetable 
formations on the earth — the impulse or moving 
cause being Intelligence. God never interfered 
in a battle, never healed the afHicted, never 
tempered the breeze to the shorn lamb, never 
made it warm on a cold day, never brought the 
dead back to life, never interfered in any polit- 
ical or other contest, never demanded any 
praise, homage, glorification, adoration or wor- 
ship; never pardoned a sin or a wrong act, 
never walked, never talked, never was seen, 
never will be seen, never asked thanks, never 
received thanks, never made a present, never 
made a gift to any human being, never made 
suffering greater or less, never went up to any 
heaven, never made any heaven, never made 
any hell, never interfered with natural law or 



126 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

its penalties nor any of the other eternal things, 
never heard prayers, never granted a pardon. 
No defacement of matter or violation of natural 
law can be restored or forgiven. A piece of 
stone broken from a cliff, or a hack made on a 
tree, can never be restored as it was. All the 
eternal things have unchangeable fixed rules, 
and when any change is made in or on any of 
the eternal things, it remains changed. It is 
erroneous to tell people that they can conmiit 
crimes and do evil deeds, and that through the 
power of the priest or church, that they can get 
forgiveness. There is no forgiveness for crimes 
and wrong doings, and any assertions to the 
contrary are a swindle and cheat to get money 
out of crimes, thefts, and murders — anything 
that brings money to church before or after 
death. 



CHAPTER 14. 



The rod of Moses turned to a serpent; the 
waters of the sea and the river divided; the 
Lord cast down great stones from heaven; the 
ground clave asunder and the earth opened her 
mouth and swallowed them up; the sun stood 
still for about one whole day. The scriptures, 
from Genesis to Revelations, are full of such 
mythological, fabulous lies and falsehoods, that 
no sane human being could, or would ever be- 
lieve, which were easy to get into bible history 
by the Levites and priestcraft, there being not 
more than one in 50,000 of the people that 
could read or write, and those who could read 
never got to see or read the history, the same 
being locked up and safely in the possession of 
priestcraft, to be added to or taken from as to 
them seemed most to their advantage; to filch 
money and the fat of the land from the ignorant 
people. Of course, these events, so falsely stated, 
never took place, but these lies were worked 
into bible history by priestcraft, probably a 
thousand years later, to make the ignorant peo- 

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128 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

pie fear God and priestcraft, so they would do 
their bidding to accomplish their desires by 
such great, fabulous lies from 1,000 to 5,000 
years old — the older the better, as age lends en- 
chantment, and is the oil that greases the 
wheels of the mythological wagon. For thous- 
ands of years priestcraft did not allow the peo- 
ple to have, read or construe the scriptures for 
themselves, and men that expressed their opin- 
ions were imprisoned and tortured by priest- 
craft, the record of which will forever remain a 
stench in the nostrils of the intelligent of man- 
kind. Hundreds of thousands of good men 
were slaughtered in the battles of the Reforma- 
tion to overcome the villainy and dictum of 
priestcraft. The feminine gender of the human 
race are persuasive beings, and the ampUtude of 
the well-fed priestcraft provides them with 
animal magnetism by which they can bring 
undue influence over their female members of 
tender age, resulting in nunneries, which are a 
disgrace to civilization, and should be prohibited 
by law. 

No human being with, or without their con- 
sent, should be deprived of their liberty without 
due process of law, and sentence by the court. 



CRITICISMS ON THE FABULOUS LIES IN THE BIBLE. 129 

Human beings are not consulted as to how and 
when they commence their existence on the 
earth, and they are not told when they will 
cease to exist. They have as much right, 
and as great a claim to a past existence, as 
they have to a future existence, there being 
no beginning or ending in the past, or in the 
future — all are blended in one eternity, and all 
eternal things entering into their construction, 
always existed. Finite beings can only claim a 
limited existence anywhere, and by death and 
disintegration they, as a whole, cease to exist in 
any part of the future; but intelligence, life, 
caloric and matter being eternal things still exist 
separately in eternity, which has no limit in the 
past or in the future. 

Caloric, when acted upon by intelligence, can 
unform and reform anything composed of intel- 
ligence, life, caloric, and matter (when the action 
is in harmony with natural law and all the other 
eternal things), which includes vegetable, ani- 
mal and insect formations. All formations 
composed of the eternal things must include 
intelligence, caloric and matter. Except there is 
intelligence, heat and matter, there can be no for- 
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130 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

a human body, except a material body, either on 
this earth or in any mythological heaven. There 
is but one way that a human being can get in 
existence, and that is by the expansion and con- 
traction of the infant's breast, giving the first 
breath, perfecting life in a human being. There 
is no way by which a human being can be born 
a second time. Intelligence (God) , and all the 
eternal things (the attributes of intelligence) 
cannot act when separated from matter. The 
material must exist or no formation can take 
place. All the eternal things cannot act when 
separated from matter. Matter is the base and 
foundation of the all eternal things throughout 
infinitude. If matter could, or should cease to 
exist, all the other eternal things would become 
inactive and cease to exist also. Intelligence, 
the highest, the greatest, the supreme essence, 
the Emanuel, the Deity, the God, that controls 
and rules over endless eternity, comes forth with 
great pomp and show and meets old scar-faced 
matter, with chaos scattered all over infinitude, 
who looks up at Great Intelligence, grins, and 
says, what would you be, Dear, if I was not 
here? What exists in eternity after the death 
of a human being, is Intelligence, life, caloric 



CRITICISM ON THE FABULOUS LIES IN THE BIBLE. 131 

and matter, each having a separate existence in 
infinitude, the same as before they entered the 
human body, and all personal identity disap- 
pears, both of mind and body, and all that 
pomp and show of fine cofiins, great monuments 
and sepulchres are, for the want of Intelligence, 
connected with unrestrained sympathy, a pure 
waste of accumulated wealth, bringing want and 
poverty to many good people. The best way 
to dispose of a corpse is to roll it in a sheet to 
obscure nudity, and lay it in the clean earth 
three or four feet below the surface of the 
ground, so as not to interfere with cultivation, 
which should be done without any remorse of 
conscience. All human beings are as much in 
the great past one hour after death as if they 
had died a million years before, and there is no 
valid reason we should be any more interested 
in them than in human fossil skeletons found 
imbedded in the solid stone. It is only the 
trend of our education and unnecessary sym- 
pathy. 



CHAPTER 15. 



ABATE FILTHY NUISANCES. 

Every child should be taught to use their 
right and left eyes, arms, hands, legs, and 
feet alike and with equal skill, but ambidexter- 
ness should not apply to reading or writing, 
which should be uniformly from left to right. 

The habitual, unsightly and filthy use of to- 
bacco should be so regulated by law that its use 
would be extirpated and exterminated. First: 
No person should be allowed to raise or produce 
it for their own use, or to give it away, or allow 
it to be filched or stolen, if in their power to 
prevent. The seller, the buyer, the manufact- 
urer, and the wholesale and retail dealers, 
should all pay a high license, and there should 
also be high import duty collected, which should 
all go to the school fund of the counties where 
collected, and no school teacher should ever be 
employed who uses tobacco, and the school 
children or students should be lectured, at least 
four times during the school term, against its 
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ABATE FILTHY NUISANCES. 133 

use and other filthy habits, that they might 
thoughtlessly acquire, which would during life 
be a filthy nuisance and an unnecessary waste 
of wealth and labor. Then, after the tobacco 
business had been so depleted by such a law, 
then give notice that on and after a fixed date, 
that no tobacco should be grown, sold, used or 
imported within the boundaries of the United 
States of America or its possessions. Its cultiva- 
tion absorbs the nitre and other valuable quali- 
ties from the soil, which would be of great use in 
the production of food and other cereal and fibre 
crops which are highly necessary to the support 
and well-being of the human race, and all the 
human race are deeply interested in keeping the 
soil in a productive condition. Anything that 
depletes the soil is injurious to the State and 
Nation. 



CHAPTER 16. 



CONTROL ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. 

Alcoholic liquors, wines and other palatable 
drinks, should be sold every place where wanted 
by well-regulated, high license, without prefer- 
ence between communities, and the boards of 
health should see to it that no adulterated goods 
are allowed to be sold, and if sold, then heavy 
fines and penalties. All license money so re- 
ceived should go to the school fund of the 
county, and not to the special locality where 
the business is done. Alcohol is the greatest 
medicinal remedy known. Its use, as well as 
that of other liquors is all right when properly 
used, and the people should see that they are 
rightly used. If persons get drunk, arrest and 
fine them so much that they will recollect it, 
and the law should be that if a man has been 
arrested for drunkenness and fined three times, 
then he should be barred from voting, holding 
any office of trust or receiving marriage licenses. 
If same have no money to pay his fines make him 
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CONTROL ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. 135 

work it out, and if same still gets drunk reform 
him in state's prison for five years. 

Alcoholic and fermented liquors have been 
used as far back as history goes, and always will 
be used. They that make brutes of themselves 
should be treated like brutes. If men are so 
weak-minded that they cannot control their ap- 
petites, get drunk, go home and abuse their 
families, the world does not need such breed- 
ers. Drunkards beget drunkards. Better give 
them the extract of poppy and let them sleep 
it out. There is such place as eternal hell, 
better get them on the road there as soon as 
possible. The air will smell better as soon as 
they are gone. (Hell is the grave). No person 
should be allowed to give away (or treat) any 
other person with liquor, if so, then a fine of ten 
dollars and costs, and vendors of liquors should 
not be allowed to sell liquor to any person under 
18 years old except they have an order from 
their parents, if so, the same fine and cost. The 
manufacture of alcohol or alcoholic liquors 
should be untaxed and free from internal reve- 
nue in any part of the United States the same 
as any other manufactured article of commerce, 
and a printed guarantee of purity should accom- 



136 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

pany each sale of one quart or over one 
quart. 

I think the ,above is far better than a demi- 
john under the bed in every home for the boys 
and girls to tipple, and all get to be drunkards. 
By the use of tobacco, and the excessive use of 
alcoholic liquors, the results are ignorance, 
therefore all the revenue from the licensing of 
such traffic should go to the schools to increase 
Intelligence. All Sunday laws should be struck 
from all the laws of the earth, but no person 
should be allowed to interfere or disturb moral 
and orderly assemblies on Sunday or any other 
day. True religion and a high standard of 
virtue and morals should be enforced by human 
laws, and not by mythical reward or punish- 
ment beyond the grave. Hoping that ultimately 
all the human race will be able to understand 
and realize that there is no man God roaming 
over the earth, or in the eternal unlimited heav- 
ens. There is but one God (Intelligence), and 
that God does not require any church worship, 
or any help of the weak-minded priest or 
preachers. 



CHAPTER 17. 



NOAH'S FLOOD. 

Of all the lies that has ever been told or writ- 
ten, none exceeds that great extortions and fab- 
ulous lie of Noah's Flood. Mount Ararat is 
about as high above the sea level as Mount Ori- 
zaba or Mount St. Elias in North America. The 
water was on the face of the whole earth. Gen., 
Chap. 8; V. 9; that is to say, it covered Ararat 
and all the mountains of the earth, bob and 
sinker, from the lowest plain to over the top of 
the Himalayas of over 29,000 feet above the level 
of the sea, increasing the diameter of the earth 
about 12 miles, with the greater portion of the 
land about 20,000 feet below the top of Noah's 
Flood. The rain was restrained and the waters 
returned from off of the earth. Gen., Chap. 8; 
V. 2, 3. Now we all know that water seeks its 
own level; then where could the water have 
went to? Once the water was on the earth it 
would stay on the earth. The sun rays will not 
evaporate water when the land cannot be struck 

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138 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

by them. When I said further back in this 
book that half the water was in the firmament 
at the time the Great Canyons were being cut, 
the good church bigot said it was ludicrous. 
Now he would have the people believe that at 
the time of Noah's Flood that there was 50,000 
times more water in the firmament than I had 
stated. If such a body of water, from 15,000 
to 20,000 feet in depth above the greater part 
of the land and covering all at some depth, 
should encompass the earth, it would become a 
ghttering spheroid revolving in its orbit around 
the sun without a spear of vegetation or a sin- 
gle inhabitant. There never was such a body of 
water in the atmosphere of the earth, and never 
will be, and no such event could or ever did take 
place. The great lie of Noah's flood is entirely 
too big a lie to look decent. It looks like at the 
time all the liars were in a great contest, and the 
man that wrote the lie of Noah's flood was the 
greatest liar of all, and won the prize. 



CHAPTER 18. 



The fall of water in order to cover the face of 
the whole earth in 40 days, would have had to 
exceed 700 feet in depth per day from start to 
finish. Counting cubits at 20 inches, the size of 
Noah ^s Ark was about 500 feet long, 84 feet 
wide and 50 feet high (3 stories), not half the 
size of the passenger ships that are making trips 
in less than six days from New York to Liver- 
pool. If the animals, fowls, and creeping 
things had been packed as close as sardines, the 
Ark would not have had room for a third of 
them, to say nothing about room for storage of 
food supplies and comforts for old Noah's family 
for 150 days. Up to the time the Ark rubbed 
its bottom and rested on the very top of Mount 
Ararat, Gen., Chap. 8; v. 3, 4, the water at the 
time, it is reasonable to estimate, was about 15 
feet deep on the very top of Ararat, as 15 feet 
would be about what the Ark would sink in the 
water under the pressure. It was about 70 
days from the time the Ark rubbed its bottom 

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140 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

and settled on the top of Ararat until the tops 
of the mountains were seen, as there had to be 
a shrinkage of 15 to 20 feet of water over the 
entire earth. It was slow, if it ever was shrank 
at all, or was ever there at all (and sure it never 
was there at all). Gen., Chap. 8; v. 4, 5. 

It would be impossible with a Hebrew God, or 
anv other God. to do what Xoah claims was 
done, as it would take more than a hundred 
times the amount of water that is on the earth, 
or in firmament above the earth to have made 
good Xoah's Mng assertions. It also would 
behttle the Hebrew God's intelligence in his 
mistakes made in creative capacity, by wiping 
away all of his fore-knowledge, and reduce him 
to a finite God, for no infinite God can make 
mistakes. 



CHAPTER 19. 



Noah must have had great skill in naviga- 
tion to be tossed around day and night when 
no sun, moon, or stars were ever seen for 40 
days, and yet when no trace of Ararat could be 
seen, then to land his old craft right on top of 
Ararat and rest it there over 70 days before the 
mountain top he was on, or other mountain 
tops could be seen. It seems he sent out the 
crafty old raven, and he likely found enough 
floating mice and toads to more than appease 
his hunger, and he likely roosted on top of the 
Ark every night and left early in the morning, 
and old Noah didn't see him at all, if there was 
any raven or old Noah at all, or any flood at 
all, and sure there was none of it at all (all lies 
and wind was all) . While the cold wind was 
slashing the water around the top of Ararat and 
old Noah's headquarters, he was sending the 
dove to find the state of the water. The dove 
saw no land the first trip. The dove saw signs 
of land the second trip. The third trip found 

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142 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

land, and did not return to old Noah at all, if 
there was any dove at all, or old Noah at all, 
and sure there was none at all. The top of 
Mount Ararat is 17,323 feet above sea level, and 
how old Noah with all the animals, fowls, and 
creeping things, got down off of that bleak, 
desolate, cold region to the lower and produc- 
tive country, where vegetable and animal life 
could be sustained, is one of the mysteries that 
only another liar like the one that wrote the 
whole of Genesis could explain, as 3,000 feet of 
the top of Mount Ararat is covered with ice 
and snow, with the cold about 60 degrees below 
zero. And without was fully as cold before old 
Noah was born, or got in great favor with the 
Hebrew mythical God, and became his earthly 
agent to help him out of some of his bad blunders 
and mistakes which had caused his great wrath, 
and old Noah had an eye to business, as he got 
this Almighty God to promise that him and his 
seed possess and inhabit the whole earth. 



CHAPTER 20. 



At this age of enlightenment and scientific 
attainments, all and every one (not a natural 
born fool), does know that as soon as the moun- 
tain peak of Ararat would have been laid bare 
with the top a few hundred feet above the 
water, and 17,323 feet above the present sea 
level, that the cold wind many degrees below 
zero, would have just whistled through old 
Noah's whiskers, and frozen stiff the life out of 
all the animals, fowls and creeping things 
around or about the Ark, not one would have 
escaped. It will be noticed that the old villain- 
ous, jealous, wrathful and lying God of mis- 
takes was not smiling around old Noah's door 
jamb when the Ark was on the top of Ararat, 
but it was after old Noah got down that he was 
establishing his covenant with him, and giving 
old Noah his song and dance about his rainbow 
sign (Gen., Chap. 9, v. 13), that every boy can 
make with a paddle in a frogpond when the sun 
is shining; and the same principle existed a mil- 

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144 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

lion years before that old lying blatherskiting 
God was around practicing his legerdemain. 
When we realize that after over 1200 years of 
Christian enlightenment that the people turned 
their children into the Christian maw of igno- 
rance, bigotry and superstition in the crusades 
to perish from sickness and hunger, and what 
escaped death were sold into slavery to the 
Turks. History says nine hundred thousand 
were offered as a sacrifice to ignorance, based 
on the fabulous lies in the Bible. Still we have 
educated men all over this country that are so 
completely under the magic wand of priest and 
preachercraft that they will stand up and say 
^^we believe every word of the Bible, no odds 
how unreasonable it might be, on the ground 
that it was done by the force and will of God, 
and that God can do any thing, that nothing is 
impossible with their mythical God,'' which is a 
barefaced and unmitigated lie. Any man but a 
natural born fool would know it without being 
told or shown. There is no such thing as 
Lord, Deity or God other than Intelligence, and 
it matters not how much intelligence there 
might be, it cannot do anything only in har- 
mony with natural law, and all the other eternal 



noah's flood. 145 

things. Intelligence cannot create any thing, 
that is, form something out of nothing; could 
not do an impossibility; could not make space, 
duration, matter, or any of the eternal things, 
or a twenty-year-old man in one minute. 
Every thing that is done or made, are formed 
by fixed rules that cannot be changed. Thus 
you may do things, and thus you shall not do 
things, and the same rule applies to Intelligence 
(God) as well as man. There is twenty eternal 
things, and every one has its own sphere of 
action which can not be interfered with, but all 
action must be in harmony with all the other 
eternal things. None of the eternal things can 
be destroyed, or their use and power con- 
cealed, they being from eternity to full extent 
of infinitude and all action in them, and on them, 
must be in accord with sphere of their action, 
force and power. 



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CHAPTER 21. 



The matter in the structure of a human being 
is eight hundred parts, out of one thousand 
parts pure water, and the two hundred part left 
is very nearly all bone (limestone), small 
amount of iron, some carbon and other gases. 
There is about four billion people that come on 
the earth and die in every one thousand years, 
and the bones will average about fifty pounds 
each, equaling in weight two billion pounds of 
bones in a thousand years, and when we con- 
sider all the short lifed and long lifed animals, 
fowls, birds, and the fishes in the water, it gives 
a grand total of bone or bone-lime, that is ex- 
tracted from the earth in one thousand years, 
as about six billion pounds, which is reabsorbed 
by the earth into the limestones of the earth, 
and is again reabsorbed into the animal king- 
dom; with never any part of the lime lost or 
destroyed, as earth matter is an eternal thing, 
and no part of the eternal things can ever be 
lost or destroyed. The same in all past eternity, 
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STRUCTURE OF A HUMAN BEING. 147 

now and forever. The same principle or law of 
all the eternal things are on the same eternal 
plan; no part can, or ever will be lost or de- 
stroyed. The same in the past eternity, now, 
and in all future eternity, forever and forever. 

If any of the eternal things should be lost or 
destroyed, such would bring chaos and confusion 
in the whole great plan of the heavens em- 
braced in the eternal unlimited ethereal space 
and infinitude. Intelligence, when acting on 
any or all of the eternal things, such action must 
be in accordance with their existence and sphere 
of action and power, and not otherwise. Har- 
mony must prevail. 



CHAPTER 22. 



THE SHORTCOMINGS, INDECENT, INCON- 
SISTENCY AND IRRECONCILABILITY 
OF ALL CHURCH WORSHIP ON 
THE EARTH. 

The mythical, invoking, incantations and hal- 
lucinations of Christianity, Judaism, and all the 
other churches of the world are so foolish, ab- 
surd, irrational and indecent that they are 
thousands of years behind this age of an educated 
and intelligent people. It is more enlightened 
to worship the rising sun, the fire, or the Chi- 
nese chalk God, than to see and hear many 
things that are practiced in and by the churches 
— such as the baptising in the filthy creeks, 
stirring up the goose manure and polluted sUme, 
and the mourners bench with the preachers 
fumbling the girls, is a disgrace to human Intel- 
ligence, and the obscure and secret confessional 
of priestcraft, is an abomination before God and 
the human race. All human beings are equal 
before God alike — no preference is shown, and 
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THE SHORTCOMINGS OF ALL CHURCH WORSHIP. 149 

when any man or set of men set up their monte 
bank of mythical dead beat to sell their influ- 
ence with God, and in that way procure a par- 
don for sins committed, just count all such 
hypocrites, barnacles and mythical dead beats, 
procuring money for what they never did, never 
will, and never can do. All glorification, adora- 
tion, beseeching and asking pardon for sins 
committed, are all just lost wind. The Eman- 
uel, the God, is in every human being, therefore, 
communicate with yourself, do right, and set to 
rights your guilty conscience and be better men 
and women by absorbing more God within you, 
to guide you in the path of rectitude. The 
more Intelligence (God) you have within you, 
the less liable you are to sin, commit crimes 
and do evil deeds. 

This whole world is well loaded up with ancient 
galore and toadyism setting forth about some- 
thing that was done or happened in some great 
mythical fabulous lies, that never was done, 
nor never could have taken place, all of which 
are commemorated as sacred events, such as Sun- 
day, Passover, Lord's Supper, Baptism, and 
many other fabulous things that the meek, 
lowly and ignorant people accept as facts, all 



150 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

of which has been worked into bible history by 
designing priestcraft for the purpose of filching 
money and the good things of the earth for their 
luxurious support without exposure at labor. 
0, when will the ignorant people become wise, 
and take these hypocrites and dead beats by 
surprise, when they can no longer sell their aged 
enchantments and fabulous lies, and by all in- 
telligent people be despised. That is to say, 
when these great extancions and fabulous re- 
presentations are made by the priests and 
preachers to the people, they should be meas- 
ured and weighed in the balance of human 
reason, and deduct therefrom all facts, truths 
and reason in them, and if found void of facts, 
truths and reason, cast them aside as worthless 
trash. Anything that will not stand criticism 
is worthless. 



CHAPTER 23. 



Why should we go away back for thousands 
of years when the masses of the people were a 
mass of ignorance, and get their old mythical, 
fabulous, moth-eaten, rotten religions, when we 
now have more intelligence in one day than they 
ever had in a thousand years. There are now a 
million men in the United States that have 
more intelligence, and a thousand times more 
morality, honor and justice in them than Solo- 
mon ever had, and throw in all the prophets 
besides. 

The intelligence in the people of this age act- 
ing on origination can bring into existence a re- 
ligion a thousand fold more superior than has 
come to us from all past effort in that line. All 
the religions of the world up to the present 
time, are as full of faults and shortcomings as a 
sieve is full of holes. 

We now have hundreds of different kinds of 
churches that are based on the scriptures be- 
cause they were so poorly, meanly and unintelli- 

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152 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

gently constructed when written, that no agree- 
ment can be had between the most inteUigent 
people as to their meaning. VvTien we see the 
great many church buildings, each representing 
separate religious creeds, all based on the differ- 
ent constructions and meaning of the so-called 
scriptures, which show that they were improp- 
erly and ignorantly constructed when written, 
that the scriptures were not designed and com- 
posed by the great Intelligence (God) but by 
men better known as ignoble, bigoted ignoram- 
uses; and the so-called prophets of the Lord in 
filthy garb doing up the towns of mud huts, 
leaning on poles called staffs, haranguing the 
people, and if they were roaming around now, 
the police would tell them to move on, and fail- 
ing to do so, they would find themselves in the 
jail charged with disturbing the peace and dig- 
nity of the city, and the judge would send them 
to the state institution for the weak minded. 

The people are carrying a great burden of ex- 
pense by the building and maintaining of the 
great number of church buildings, and the pay 
of the priests and preachers to unload their in- 
vocations, hallucinations and explaining a long 
list of mythical fables and fabulous lies found in 



THE SHORTCOMINGS OF ALL CHURCH WORSHIP. 153 

the Bible, in such a way that they will all be 
accepted as solid truths by the congregation, 
but have no effect on the seats, mostly empty. 
The great mass of the intelligent people of the 
world that have the push, energy and inventive 
skill that bring order out of chaos and strife, 
never give any attention to the eternal things 
or the supreme plan of eternity or infinitude. 
They leave all that to the priests and preachers 
to tell them about the great mythical heaven 
and hell, and how to get to that great mythical 
heaven by paying the priest or preacher, and 
supporting the church, but failing to do that, 
their mythical souls will at death pass into that 
great, eternal, mythical hell, and the priest and 
preacher smiles as he sees them piling their 
hard-earned money into the contribution box, 
taking it for granted that what the priest or 
preacher told them is the true status of life, and 
the priest or preacher says to himself, as he pulls 
the door after him, ^T have fed my sheep and 
they turned in their fleece too.'' 



CHAPTER 24. 



The priest says to himself: '^I will soon get a 
red cap, and be high-cockalorum and boss of all 
nunneries — the game rooster of all Christendom." 
The preacher smiles, rubbing his hands together, 
as he sits up to his table of the most luxurious 
viands and says to his wife: ^^We divines travel 
at half-fare, and the way the money is coming 
in we will be able, on my vacation, to take a 
trip to Europe, and I will send in some grand 
reports of the Holy Land. These reports will 
not bother me at all, as when we are in London 
there are men who make a business of writing 
great reports on the Holy Land for a few dol- 
lars, and we will send in big reports on the 
scenes in the Holy Land while we are taking in 
the great sights in London and Paris (see) , and 
when we return we will have a grand time, as it 
will take half a dozen big sermons (which I will 
bring with me, bought of sermon writers in 
London), and I will give them a grand eye- 
opener, and we will have another grand time, 
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THE SHORTCOMINGS OF ALL CHURCH WORSHIP. 155 

and money will come in big rolls. My congre- 
gation will believe every word I say. They are 
believers, and will believe anything, as you 
know that it is by firm belief and undoubting 
faith that they get to the great and glorious 
mythical heaven, besides it is written that un- 
belief is the curse of the world, and you know 
that will make them all strong in faith and un- 
doubting in belief.'' None are so blind as those 
that will not see, with the fear of an eternal hell 
of damnation deeply embedded in their memory. 
Surely the blind leadeth the blind, and main 
road leads from their money purse to the priests' 
and preachers' pockets. And why not when 
they are church dupes and slaves owned by 
church dogmas, not having courage enough to 
contend or accept freedom. 



CHAPTER 25. 



Admitting that there are many priests and 
preachers (that is, of the very common run) 
that, by delusion, are acting in good faith, and 
are firm in the behef that they are saving many 
of what they beUeve to be human souls from an 
eternal hell, but it is a sure deduction from all 
the facts under consideration, the money is the 
force that pulls the mythological wagon of all 
the churches. 

All human beings on this earth have their ex- 
istence by the direct impulse of Intelligence 
(God) , and if there is a soul or spiritual body in 
every human being, it comes from the same 
source and what Intelligence (God) has done. 
Intelligence (God) is amply able to take care of 
all the works of the eternal, unlimited intelli- 
gence throughout all infinitude. The force and 
power of the eternal Intelligence (God) , with all 
the other eternal things as attributes, does not 
need the assistance of these weak-minded 
priests and preachers who, by their pretended 
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LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 157 

celibacy, work their way into the sociality of 
marriageable and conjugal relations of families, 
causing much illegitimacy and a great many 
divorces. There is nothing more dangerous to 
the chastity and welfare of the family than the 
amplitude of a well fish and chicken-fed priest 
or preacher. There is not a church on earth 
that can stand if the orations or sermons of 
their priests or preachers are allowed to be fol- 
lowed by a competent critic, showing the same 
to be unreasonable, untruthful and unworthy of 
belief or credence. 

There may be some of the partly civilized, 
unlearned and unintelligent people that yet 
have fears of an eternal hell of damnation, but 
all the educated, thinking and intelligent people 
no longer have any fear of any kind of a hell, 
for the best of reasons the consensus of all the 
evidence on earth, or in the eternal, unlimited 
heavens show that there is no such place, and 
the time is near when the boys and girls moan- 
ing and trembling with fear, will no longer be 
held with red hot tongs over a great lake of 
hellfire and brimstone in order to increase 
church membership and the money in the 
priests' or preachers' pockets. 



CHAPTER 26. 



LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 

Below I give one of the most complete lists 
of the lost ^^books referred to in the Scriptures^' 
that has ever been published : 

Book of the Wars of the Lord, Numbers, 
xxi.,14. 

Book of Jasher, Joshua, x., 13; also, II Sam- 
uel, i., 18. 

Book of Iddo the Seer, II. Chronicles, ix., 
25; also II. Chronicles xii., 15. 

Book of Nathan the Prophet, II. Chronicles, 
ix., 29. 

Prophecies of Ahijah, II. Chronicles, ix., 
20. 

Acts of Rehoboam in Book of Shemaiah, 
11. Chronicles, xii., 15. 

Book of Jehu, II. Chronicles, xx., 34. 

Book of the Kings of Israel, 11. Chronicles, 
XX., 34. 

Book of the Thousand and Five Songs of 
Solomon, I. Kings, iv., 32. 
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LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 159 

Book of the Covenant, Exodus, xxiv., 7. 

Book of Remembrance, Malachi, iii., 14. 

Book of Gad, the Seer, I. Chronicles, xxix., 29. 
- Book of the Acts of Solomon, I. Kings, xi., 41. 

Book of the Lord, Isaiah, xxxiv., 16. 

Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah, I. 
Chronicles, ix., 1; II. Chronicles, xvi., 11; xxviii., 
26; XXXV., 27; xxxvi., 8. 

Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, 
I. Kings, xiv., 19; I. Kings, xvi., 5. 

Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, 
I. Kings, XV., 7. 

The Chronicles of King David, I. Chronicles, 
xxvii., 24. 

Isaiah's "Acts of Uzziah/' 11. Chronicles, 
xxvi., 22. 

Acts of Hezekiah in the Vision of Isaiah the 
Prophet, II. Chronicles, xxxii, 32. 

Sayings of the Seers, II. Chronicles, xxxii., 19. 

Story of the Prophet Iddo, II. Chronicles, 
viii., 22. 

Some commentators maintain that the four- 
teenth verse of the single chapter of Jude alludes 
to a "Book of Enoch;'' also, that the thirty- 
second verse of the fourth chapter of I. Kings, 
refers to works on natural history that were 
written by Solomon. 



CHAPTER 27. 



Considering the wars, bloodshed, turmoil, 
trouble, strife and heartfelt sorrow that the old 
filthy Jewish Bible has brought to the human 
race, it makes me shudder to contemplate what 
would be the result if we should have been un- 
fortunate enough to have been cursed with all 
the books. Job's troubles compared would be 
as a sand in the sea. We should feel thankful 
that we never got the lost books, and we would 
be a thousand tunes more blessed if we had 
never gotten any of the books of the old Jev/ish 
Bible. Now as to Jesus Christ, his miraculous 
conception and birth was a deception, which 
no sane, intelligent person believes, and there 
is no proof worthy of belief or credence, just 
fabulous lying assertions, pure unadulterated 
bosh, and if the assertions were true, why did 
Matthew call him the son of Man, and it was 
the Devils who called him the son of God. 
Which was mistaken, Matthew or the Devils? 
All such talk about the Virgin Mary conceived 

by the Holy Ghost is ignorant filthy twaddle. 
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CHAPTER 28. 



' There is nothing to show that Christ was 
educated or ever wrote any language, scribbled 
in the dust just once. What he knew about 
the scriptures he probably got from his father 
Joseph, or in the synagogue, or by converse, 
and his disciples were uneducated and of the 
very commonest class of men at that date, and 
it is a general consensus from all that infor- 
mation that the twelve apostles never wrote 
the twelve books as stated; they were likely 
written by scribes from hearsay of the fabulous 
reports then current in that part of the country. 
For many years the belief and faith in Christ 
was very limited, and these twelve books with 
many other books and manuscripts were in the 
possession of the Christian priest for 325 years, 
and there was great discord among the priests 
or ministers as to what was the teachings of 
Jesus Chiist, and Constantine called all the 
christian priests or ministers to the great coun- 
cil of Nice, and when they had all assembled 
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162 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

they numbered only about 2,300, while Lima, 
Peru, has 8,000 priests for 140,000 people, so 
it is plain to be seen that the people of eastern 
Europe and adjacent territory in Asia and 
Africa had but little use for the fabulous and 
miraculous Christ, and v/hen all the books and 
manuscripts were laid before the council there 
was tumultuous strife and bitter contentions 
as to what were really the teachings of Christ. 
There were two propositions before the coun- 
cil. One was, that all the books and manu- 
scripts in any form should be preserved. The 
second proposition was that the twelve books 
of the apostles be retained as the teachings of 
Christ, and all the rest be destroyed. AVhen the 
vote was taken there was about two-thirds of 
the council for preserving all, and about one- 
third to preserve only the twelve books of the 
apostles and destroy the rest; at this juncture 
of the proceedings Constantine lined up the 
minority delegates and cleared the house of 
the great majority, and himself and the minor- 
ity delegates declared the twelve books of the 
apostles canonical and had all the other manu- 
scripts and books destroyed. These twelve 
scriptures at the time of the council had been 



LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 163 

in possession of priestcraft for over 300 years, 
and the common people knew nothing about 
them, only what the priests told them. They 
had been translated and interpreted and worked 
over, so as to make each book to a great extent 
harmonize so that when these twelve manu- 
scripts were before the Nicene council they 
received the approval of Constantine, which 
was really the council, as the majority were 
ruled out and had no say in the matter, and 
all of their manuscripts and books were de- 
stroyed, and that put a quietus on all conten- 
tions and disputes as to what was the teaching 
or doctrines of Christ, and at this date it is not 
known what the teachings and doctrines of 
Christ was, or is now. The old Jewish Bible 
wa-s translated and interpreted from the an- 
ient Hebrew into the modern Hebrew, and 
from the modern Hebrew to the Greek and 
Latin, and no doubt thousands of mistakes 
were made by error, or most likely intentional 
by designing priestcraft as an object lesson. 



CHAPTER 29. 



When King James' translation was made 
into the English language, there was, some say 
12,000 and others say 24,000 mistakes were 
made and we know that we at this day 
can hardly have a deed recorded without mis- 
takes. The consensus of all history show that 
all worship of all religions were based on great 
fabulous myths, lies and legerdemain, and the 
larger and more erroneous the presentations, 
the better they took with the then uneducated 
and ignorant people, and the priests and preach- 
ers, beginning thousands of years in the past 
and clear on up until now have built up 
a great oligarchy made out of the past poor, 
filthy, unreasonable, unbelievable, ignorant 
trash and hobgoblins brought down to this 
enlightened age, from the ancient, ignorant and 
barbarian races, and then go around with a 
lantern at midday trying to find out why the 
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LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 165 

dear people do not attend the churches, and 
rub their hands down over a well-fed stomach 
and say: "We are always ready to feed the 
sheep/' but the sheep do not want such ancient 
musty feed ; they have learned of better pasture. 
The people are now better educated and too in- 
telligent to listen or entertain the howling, 
ignorant fanatical pretentions contrary to reason 
and intelligence. When a man goes on the 
platform to talk to the people, he must stick to 
facts, truths and reason. People will not 
accept fabulous lies and falsehoods as facts. 
There was a time when the people could be made 
believe such things because they were in the 
Bible, but that does not count these days. The 
people want the facts and truths supported and 
weighed in the balance of human reason. 



CHAPTER 30. 



The most of the laws of the Hebrews that 
was heralded to the people as written by the 
great Jew God's own hand and turned over to 
Moses were in existence in the Sanskrit, the 
first, greatest and most ancient language of 
mankind, as shown in the Shastra of the Hin- 
doos of India, more than a thousand years 
before Moses was born. Solomon's wise saying 
that ^^ there is nothing new under the sun," no 
doubt was a comtmon phrase in use many cen- 
turies before the sainted old David had Uriah 
murdered in order to get his wife, and before 
Amnan, son of David forced his sister Tamar, 
and Absalom went from the tent on top of his 
father's house without shame in unto his father's 
ten concubines and made fornication with each 
and all of them in the sight of all Israel, and 
that almighty Hebrew God, with both eyes 
shut, didn't see at all! That much-lauded and 
greatly glorified Golden Rule: ^^Do unto others 
as you would have them do unto you," that has 
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LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 167 

been the beacon star to light up the pathway 
of the Christian for over nineteen hundred 
years, shows up in history seven hundred years 
before Jesus Christ was born in a stable and 
laid in the manger. Brahma, Vishnu and Seva 
in the Hindoo Shastra, is a prelude to Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost, which is not found in the 
Bible but borrowed, purely an invention of 
designing priestcraft, both having a similar 
meaning, and both being big, high-sounding 
words, and both, first and last, pure mytho- 
logical wind, intended to mislead the ignorant 
masses and credulous church dupes, but at this 
age when all statements must be weighed in 
the balance of human reason, church dupes are 
becoming less plentiful every year, and will be- 
come more so in the future. Anything that is 
not reasonable is subject to examination, and 
criticized and weighed in the balance of human 
reason, and if found wanting, cast aside. 



CHAPTER 31. 



Jesus Christ was called the son of Man by 
Matthew, chapter S, verse 20; the devils called 
Jesus Christ the son of God, chapter 8, verse 29, 
so the name ^^son of God'' came from the devils 
directly from hell the grave, as defined by Web- 
ster's Dictionary, that hell is the grave. But 
the whole is a lie and a myth as the devils were 
not in the man, nor ever went into the swine. 
The swine herders had stolen the hogs, sold 
them to passing water craft, and availed them- 
selves of the opportunity of accounting for the 
missing swine by laying it all on the great and 
glorious Jesus Christ, followed by a gang of 
ignorant dupes, bummers, toughs and hoboes. 
The owner of the swine was simply hoodwinked 
out of his hogs. The Catholic priests are edu- 
cated and learned men, and they know that 
the Bible will not stand the searchlight of 
reason and criticism, and for that reason they 
keep the scriptures in Greek and Latin, so that 
the members of the church cannot read or form 
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LOST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 169 

any opinion in regard to them, only what the 
priests tell them. That is to say, they call up 
their ignorant sheep and feed them plenty of 
rotten filthy twaddle about the Hebrew God 
and the glorious Jesus Christ who plainly said 
^Xet the dead bury the dead/' Matthew 8: 22, 
showing that neither himself or the Church 
he would establish had any interest in the dead 
further than what the Church could get out of 
the friends and relatives, which at this age 
brings a large revenue for funeral orations, 
and the Christian Catholic Church gets large 
donations after death for canceling or setting 
aside sins committed during life. It would be 
extremely hard to invent a more enticing trap 
for fools than this loathsome and detestable 
proposition; a superlative double searchlight 
cheat and swindle perpetrated on their followers 
and not in accord with the scriptures and con- 
trary to human reason. What is human wor- 
ship? Answer: Pure, unadulterated decep- 
tion, where much is expected and nothing re- 
ceived. What is the cause of Human Worship? 
Answer: A desire to live an eternal life after 
death. This desire is so strong by and from 
the force of education and training, that they 



170 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

prefer to go to any kind of hell rather than not 
exist at all after death; but once their minds 
are liberated from that baleful influence and 
fully realize that there is no existence after 
death, it would give them liberty of both mind 
and body, and the trend of their minds would 
be for good laws well enforced, purity of purpose 
with charitable chasted and loving kindness 
for all the human race, and not be impressed by 
a belief that they could commit all kinds of 
evil deeds and crimes, and receive pardon while 
living, and even by priestcraft after they are 
dead. Such bad morals taught to the young 
people leads them to believe that no matter what 
mean and detestable crime they may do, that 
God, through the influence of priestcraft, will 
forgive them, and make their celestial garments 
as white as snow. 



CHAPTER 32. 



FIXED RULES OF LIFE. 

Observe your full duty between yourself and 
your fellowman, same as between father and 
child, husband and wife. Have rectitude, gov- 
erned by pure unselfish reason. Be virtuous, 
kind, true and sincere in your ways toward all, 
having charity for all, but more so to the de- 
serving ones. Have purity of purpose and 
honest desire in dispensing impartial justice 
to all. Use practical and just ways of life, and 
give all praise to this world, striving always to 
make it better. Practice industry, sobriety, 
gravity, decorum and truthfulness as a good 
citizen. Take nothing but that which is yours 
of right and justice. Expect nothing more of 
all others than you would be willing to grant 
yourself. Accept as a fact that you have no 
knowledge of why you have life and existence 
here on this earth, and cannot have any know- 
ledge of life and existence after death. Fully 
recognize that your body can never leave the 

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172 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

earth, for the reason that it is part of the earth, 
that inteUigence, Ufe, and caloric separates from 
the body, but that you do not know from whence 
they came or whither they go, recognizing as a 
fact, that they were absorbed from Eternity, 
and after segregation called death, still exist 
in eternity separately, and independently, the 
same as before they entered into the structure 
of an intelligent, live, warm, human being, whose 
body was matter. That your existence on this 
earth is transitory, wherein you have no know- 
ledge of your beginning or ending, and are only 
filling some small place in eternity, not now 
known or ever will be known, for the reason that 
the finite can not comprehend the infinite, nor see 
or understand or contemplate the force and 
power of the eternal things as the supreme plan 
of the eternal unlimited ethereal space and 
infinitude. 



CHAPTER 33. 



CONFUCIANISM. 

Confucius lived about 550 years before Christ. 
There was really more Intelligence (God) within 
him and his moral precepts and teachings than 
in any of the past modes of worship. When 
the people first began their existence on the 
earth it was at the northern and southern ex- 
tremes of the earth. The climate was first 
tropical and their needs were supplied by both 
vegetable and animal life, and there was no 
need for any more. There was at that time 
no Eastern or Western Hemispheres, and all 
the equatorial or the central portion of the earth 
was at that time torrid climate and all covered 
with water, but the climate where the people 
lived changed to a temperate climate; had 
winter and summer seasons, and when the sun 
would to them appear to recede and go away, 
and all vegetable and animal life would suffer, 
but when the sun returned it appeared to re- 
deem everything; vegetation came forth and 

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174 FACTSj TRUTHS AND REASON. 

all animal life increased, and all nature was 
again lovely. So they began to look to the sun 
as their god, and began reverencing and wor- 
shiping the sun, as when it came near heat 
came to them and repelled the cold and brought 
happiness. They soon realized that fire was 
also heat, and began worshiping fire by building 
fire-altars out of wood, and when burning 
worshipped the fire as God, and made burnt 
offerings of animals and of human beings as 
well, and the Hebrews improved and modern- 
ized the way and manner by getting firstlings 
of all the finest flesh animals and have them 
mcely roasted, of which none was allowed to 
be eaten except by the priests and flunkey 
attendants of the tabernacle. The reason for 
that was to not let the common people find out 
how sumptuously they were living, all at the ex- 
pense of the people, and for the further reason 
that priestcraft did not want the people to see or 
find out the workings of the tabernacle. Even 
was not allowed to see old Moses' negro wife. 



CHAPTER 34. 



The whole world is well supplied with priests, 
preachers, clergy, exhorters, church henchmen, 
swads, bumpkins and an immense number of 
goody-goody people that are always ready to 
proclaim and acclaim that every good thing 
that has come or ever will come for the benefit, 
comfort, ease, and well-being of the human race 
all come from their mythical imaginary Hebrew 
Man God. After the great English Nation had 
been compelled to acknowledge the indepen- 
dence of the United States, and Washington 
dead, then comes the big lie by a man that 
Yv^ould not have been trusted by merchants for 
a peck of potatoes, that he had seen Washington 
praying in the woods, and that God had answer- 
ed his prayers. '^Now in these days came the 
man Jesus,'' but it could not stay that way and 
v/as altered by priestcraft to read ''Now in 
these days came the man Jesus ''if he could be 
called a man.'' (see Josephus.) The church, 
priests, prelates, dignitaries, bigots and hench- 

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176 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

men have been for thousands of years polluting, 
changing and altering the Bible and Bible his- 
tory, and all other history, in all and everything 
on the earth to support this mythological He- 
brew Man God, and their erroneous reUgions 
and pretensions. 

Alexander the Great, Leonidas, Caesar, Na- 
poleon, Voltaire, Lafayette, WelUngton, Wash- 
ington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, Hamilton, 
Franklin, Paine, Jones, and thousands of others 
of the greatest men that ever walked on this 
earth were free thinking and unbelievers in 
the Hebrew Mythical God. It is from the 
acts and great deeds of these men that 
we of this age are allowed to think, write, 
talk and reason together, and feel the great 
benefits of free thought, free speech, and free, 
untrammeled liberty, backed by a National 
Infidel Constitution, under which the nation 
has prospered as no other nation has since man's 
existence on the earth began, and that constitu- 
tion will remain an Infidel Constitution while the 
mountains stand and the rivers flow to the sea. 
This book is intended to be read, weighed in the 
balance and measured by God's greatest gift 
to man. Human Reason. 



CHAPTER 35. 



At this age when the eternal unlimited intel- 
ligence that fills all infinitude is being rapidly 
absorbed into the minds of our greatest and 
best developed men of brains and push, in 
inventions, arts and scientific attainments, until 
we can sit in our office and talk with people all 
over the state and nation, and send messages 
all over the world either on the surface or under 
the great oceans, or through fluid air to our 
ships at sea, and soon we may expect to be 
able to look across the ocean and see what is 
going on in London, Paris and other large cities 
in Europe, or sit in chair in New York and see 
our friends get aboard the ship at San Francisco 
and hear them say goodby, or at the same place 
see the Methodist shouter open his mouth, blare 
his eyes and hear his hallelujah; but it is a sure 
deduction, look as you can, will or may, you 
will not be able to see any person or hear any 
person that has passed through death and the 
grave, for the reason that they do not now nor 

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178 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

ever have returned alive or otherwise; such a 
thing never has been done, nor ever will be done. 
All such statements made in the scriptures that 
human beings did return to life again after 
death, even a mythical God, are untruthful and 
are the invention of priestcraft in support of 
their mythical Man God, to establish a false, 
detestable religious faith worship, to get much 
money and support from the ignorant people. 
For the past fifty years, spirits returning to 
this earth has had a great rage, and the laying 
on of hands, and so called Christian Science have 
all proved to be a pure unadulterated humbug 
supported by ignorance and superstition. There 
is no such thing as a spirit of a human being 
or any other animal on the earth nor never 
was, nor never will be. 



CHAPTER 36. 



A GENERAL CONSPECTUS, RECAPITU- 
LATION, REHEARSAL, AND EX- 
PLANATORY REFERENCES IN 
SUPPORT OF THE FORE- 
GOING PAGES. 

THE GOD IDEA OF HUMAN ORIGIN. 

Personal gods always correspond to the char- 
acter of their worshipers. The ancient Scan- 
dinavians lived by conquest and they wor- 
shiped two grim Gods of war and plunder — 
Thor and Odin. The Hindoos are non-com- 
bative and their gods are tutelary and corres- 
pondingly harmless. The ancient Greeks were 
of versatile character and worshipped Mars — 
God of War. They were given to revelry and 
mirth, and offered oblations to Bacchus — God 
of Revelry, and Comus — God of Mirth. They 
were fond of maritime pursuits and sacrificed 
to Neptune — God of the Sea. They were ad- 
dicted to amatory pleasures and adored Venus — 

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180 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

Goddess of Beauty, and Cupid — God of Love. 
The primitive Jews were warlike and blood- 
thirsty, and their Jehovah was correspondingly 
remorseless, cruel and vindictive. John Knox, 
founder of Old School Presbyterianism, had 
large combativeness and destructiveness, with 
small benevolence, and believed in a God 
of infinite malice and hate — the Draco of 
the universe, the author of sin and its un- 
sparing avenger. Theodore Parker was the 
opposite of Knox, having small destructive- 
ness and combativeness and large benevo- 
lence, and he advocated the existence of a God 
infinite in love and benevolence. Thus we find 
that the Gods of individuals as well as nations 
always correspond in character to the people 
as individuals doing them homage. This proves 
the gods to be of human origin. The things 
made always harmonize with the qualification 
of the maker, and personal gods are no exception 
to this rule. (The Christian's God borrowed.) 
The early Christians were blinded by credal 
dogmas, and the age not being propitious for 
the manufacture of new gods, they adopted the 
God of Abraham, and in their blindness do 
homage at the shrine of this deific monster. 



THE GOD IDEA OF HUMAN ORIGIN. 181 

Their adherence to the Hebrew brutal idea of 
a god grows out of their reverence for and behef 
in the Bible and the acceptance of its perni- 
cious teachings during childhood and youth, 
before the mind had been sufficiently developed 
to discriminate between right and wrong, or 
truth and error. The people now being edu- 
cated and intelligent, will not recognize the 
Hebrew God longer, but will say " Step behind 
me, Satan, we have been humbugged enough.'^ 
There is no points of greatness represented in 
the Hebrew God. All is schemes, deceit and big 
lies and overdrawn things that had happened 
or were manufactured by designing priestcraft, 
all of which was not at all understood by the 
ignorant uneducated people. 



CHAPTER 37. 



CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN'S GOD. 

He created a world with a full knowledge of 
its destiny, and then terrifically cursed it because 
it failed to meet his expectations. (Gen. 3: 14.) 
Later, when contemplating the failure of his 
mundane enterprise he indulged in the following 
pretentions lamentation: ^^I will destroy man 
whom I have created, both man and beast, and 
the creeping things and the fowls of the air, for 
^^ it repenteth me that I have made them/' (Gen. 
6:5.) What an admission from a God who 
had infinite wisdom to devise his plans and in- 
finite power to execute them. If this God was 
omniscient, he knew how wicked man would 
prove and how he would repent of his creation; 
and the question is, why he did not repent in 
the beginning and leave man undisturbed be- 
neath the quiet shades of annihilation. Why 
call him into existence by creative fiat and 
allow the devil to load him down with original 
sin, and then force him to play his grewsome 
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CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN'S GOD. 183 

part in the awful tragedies enacted on the 
stage of human Hfe. Repentance on the part 
of an actor for an action performed proves a 
mistake has been made, but just how omni- 
science and omnipotence could become eligible 
to mistakes is certainly one of the profound 
mysteries of godliness. Certainly a Hebrew 
God could not make mistakes. The Intelli- 
gence (God) of the earth, heavens, eternal un- 
limited ethereal space and infinitude never 
makes mistakes. No intelligent human being 
at this day and time can be made believe that 
the Intelligence (God) would or can make mis- 
takes. The God of the Bible was no God at 
all, a myth, bolstered up by big lies. 



CHAPTER 38. 



SWEARS IN HIS WRATH AND IS 
JEALOUS. 

This God, so reverenced by the Christians, 
possessed a distressingly bad temper, and when 
provoked would furiously ^^swear in his wrath.'' 
(Psalms 95: 11.) He so dishonored his omni- 
potence as to grow fiercely jealous of ^^strange 
Gods" and ^^graven images" (Deut. 32: 16; 
Exod. 20:5.) 

ORDERS AND ACCEPTS HUMAN SACRIFICES. 

The Christian's God was likewise guilty of 
the horrible offense of ordering and accepting 
human sacrifice (Gen. 22: 1; Judges 11: 30, 39; 
II. Sam. 21: 6, 9.) Modern clergy paint with 
lurid colors the appalling chapter of human 
sacrifices on heathen altars; but would do well 
to consider the human victims whose blood has 
stained with crimson the altars of their own 
favorite God before further falsely traducing 
and maligning the gods of the heathen. 
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SWEARS IN HIS WRATH AND IS JEALOUS. 185 

RESULTS OF THESE EXAMPLES. 

"The Christian Community of the Universal 
Brotherhood" that is based on Christ's command 
to love all, for which North America is now 
cursed with a large colony of Russian Douk- 
hobors in Western Canada, doing worship and 
penance by marching many miles in great 
crowds, naked as when born, both men and 
women, through the deep snow when the cold 
is below zero, and still these fanatical lunatics 
are a credit to many of the incantations, hal- 
lucinations and fabulous things done and prac- 
ticed by the Jewish and Christian denominations. 
What better can be said of the old Jews with 
their ignorant, filthy and detestable circum- 
cision, falling on their faces in the dirt and 
wallowing in sackcloth and ashes to appease 
the wrath of an imaginary mythical God. 

The Intelligence (God) of all eternity and 
infinitude is not possessed of wrath or anger. 
Such talk about a God getting full of wrath and 
anger is too silly to be considered — only by 
fools. 



CHAPTER 39. 



WHERE PEOPLE SHOULD BE WISE. 

Right here in the central part of the United 
States of North America, the most enlightened 
nation on this earth, near the center of Mis- 
souri, six miles south-east of the city of Tipton, 
a man named Mulkey was very sick with fever, 
and for fear that he would die without being 
baptized, the hog scalding trough was brought 
in, filled sufficiently with water and Mulkey 
was lifted from his bed and lowered under the 
water as preacher mumbled over the baptismal 
ceremony, and the water ran in his mouth and 
nose, strangling him to death, as the preacher 
said: "Bless us. Lord, we have saved him, as 
we got him baptized before he was dead.'' 
They just took the poor sick man out of his bed 
and murdered him, and then have the effront- 
ery to ask their Mythical Lord to bless them for 
what they had done, and the very next day at 
his funeral took up a collection to raise money 
to send missionaries to preach to the heathen, 
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MYTHICAL LORD TO BLESS IGNORANCE. 187 

ninety-five per cent of the same going into the 
preacher's pocket and five per cent to the hea- 
then, which all should have gone to the poor 
widow woman and her starving children just 
around the corner. What have we got to do 
with the heathen, the less we have of them the 
better off for the world and people that live 
on it. Anna Peterson, a devout Christian of 
Mound City, Kansas, in imitation of those Bible 
examples, put her fourteen months old baby in 
the stove and offered it up as a burnt offering 
to the Christian's God, who, as she had learned 
from the Bible, was fond of the ^^ sweet smelling 
savor emanating from burning sacrifice." And 
a consistent Bible believer and pious church 
member of Pocasset, Massachusetts, sacrificed 
his little three year old girl to Christian Moloch 
in the most brutal manner. Guiteau was 
prompted to murder Garfield from the perni- 
cious source of the teachings of Theism and the 
Bible. Did space permit, we could refer to 
hundreds of like cases, but the above must 
suffice. If the deluded victims of Christian 
superstition have to have a Bible let them 
adopt one whose precepts and examples does not 
sanction tyranny, slavery, persecution and cruelty. 



CHAPTER 40. 



IS GUILTY OF OUTRAGE, INJUSTICE 
AND VANITY. 

The Lord hardened Pharaoh^s heart so that 
he would not let the people go, and then sent 
upon hun and his people a long list of horrible 
plagues to compel him to do the very thing he 
hardened his heart to prevent him from doing. 
Hardened his heart and then fearfully scourged 
him for being hard-hearted, and all for the 
purpose of getting for his infinite Godship a 
great name throughout the earth. (Ex. 9; 12, 16.) 

Jehovah is represented as '' sl god of battle 
whose sword is filled with blood" (Isa. 63: 3, 4.) 
Could a fiend infernal ever utter a threat more 
cruel and vindictive than this! With such a 
god is it to be wondered at that Christians 
crimsoned the Dark Ages with innocent blood, 
and that it now takes three millions of armed 
men to keep the peace in Christian Europe at 
an expense of billions of dollars annually, which 
enormous sum is wrung from the oppressed and 
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GOD IS PARTIAL. 189 

enslaved toilers by an army of remorseless tax 
gatherers. Verily, man cannot be better than 
the God he worships. 

This deific caricature on the entire theistic 
family was guilty of the meanest phase of 
partiality, as he is represented loving one 
child and hating another before either of them 
were born. (Rom. 9: 11.) Sunday School 
teachers, from ignorance or knavery, inform 
their classes that the word ^^hate^' in this in- 
stance does not mean hate, but ^Uove less^'; that 
is, God loved Esau less than he did Jacob. 
Let us see. The prophet Malachi, in referring 
to this subject, uses the following language 
to explain to us just what love less, in this 
instance means: ^^was not Esau Jacob's bro- 
ther, saith the Lord, and yet I loved Jacob and 
hated Esau, and laid his mountains and heri- 
tage waste to the dragons of the wilderness. '^ 
'^ Love less '' with a vengeance, that. '^ Whereas 
Edom saith, we are impoverished, but we will 
return and build up our desolate places. Thus 
saith the Lord of Hosts, they shall build up, 
but I will tear down; they shall be called a 
people against whom the indignation of the 
Lord endureth forever.'^ (Mai. 1: 2, 4.) and all 



190 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

of this calamity befell the Edomites because 
200 years before a vindictive and malicious 
God loved one child and hated another before 
either of them was born. What a travesty on 
justice and heavenly paternity. But this is 
not the worst reflection on their "Heavenly 
Father^' who has abiding care over "falUng 
sparrows'' but seems most cruelly disposed 
toward his creatures who are unfortunate 
enough to belong to the genus homo. This pre- 
tended hate of Esau was to have some nation 
to rob and plunder. Sure, it was a very flimsy 
excuse, but the old Jews, when they had no 
excuse, they made one, as lying, steaUng and 
murdering was their trade. The record of the 
old Jewish nation is the most detestable for 
cruelty and unjustified murder and bloodshed 
that is found in history. Then we hear the 
people prating about the morals of Moses and 
Joshua. 



CHAPTER 4L 



Paul, the inspired promulgator of divine 
truths, informs us that the Christian's ^^ Heaven- 
ly Father'' whose ^Hender mercies are over all 
his works" actually sends his children ^^ strong 
delusions to believe a lie, that they might be 
all damned." (H. Thess. 2: 10, 11.) How con- 
siderate this Heavenly Father is for the welfare 
of his children. The reason for this fatherly 
delusion and its mythical damnation is '^be- 
cause they believe not the truth." Who is to 
blame for the prevalence of Atheism in the face 
of these revolting statements made to us in 
the name of divine Truth? 

(GUILTY OF FALSEHOOD AND DECEPTION.) 

The prophet Michai bears testimony as to 

the immaculate character of the Christian's 

"Heavenly King" in the following significant 

manner: "I saw the Lord sitting on his throne 

and all the host of heaven standing by him, and 

the Lord said, Who will persuade Ahab that he 

go up to Ramoth Gilead and fall? And one 

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192 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

said in this manner, and another said in that 
manner. And there came forth a spirit and 
stood before the Lord and said, I will per- 
suade him. And the Lord said unto him 
Wherewith?; And he said, I will go forth 
and be a Mng spirit in the mouth of all his 
prophets, and he, the Lord, said, ^'Thou shalt 
persuade him and prevail also. Go forth and 
do so. (L Kings, 22: 19.) Here, through the 
clairA'oyant vision of the prophet, we get a 
glimpse of the Christian home in glor}', and lo, 
what a scene ! Their mythical Heavenly Father 
and a lot of lying spirits putting up a job on 
King Ahab, and sending out a lying emissary 
who by the grossest deception lured the old 
king to his destruction. TMiat a sad commen- 
taiy on intelligence and honesty of that age, 
when the masses accept such offensive bosh as 
inspired truth. This God, so abjectly feared 
and devoutly worshipped by the Christians, 
seduced not only the prophets of Shab, but at 
times grossly deceived his own favorite seers. 
Ezekiel declares that "if a prophet be deceived 
when he has spoken a thing, I, the Lord God, 
have deceiATd that prophet;" and poor old 
Jeremiah, in his humiliation, cried out: "Oh 



THESE WAS LYING SPIRITS. 193 

Lord, thou hast deceived me and I was deceived 
and am held in derision daily.'' "Ah Lord God, 
thou hast surely greatly deceived this people, 
saying, ye shall have peace, when the sword 
reacheth to the soul." (Ezek. 14: 9; Jer. 20: 7 
and 4: 10.) "Be ye perfect even as your 
Father in Heaven is perfect/' This God had 
lying spirits to deceive the prophets, but de- 
ceived them himself, and had them lie for him, 
whenever more lying was necessary in his mythi- 
cal schemes of deception to keep the masses 
under control of priestcraft, and in that way 
make the ignorant people fear and obey the 
priest or Levites. The God of the Bible was 
only a myth for the use of the Levites and priest 
to tell the people about. 



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CHAPTER 42. 



VIOLATES HIS OATH AND BREAKS 
HIS PROMISE. 

Jehovah at divers times swore to Abraham, 
Isaac and Jacob ^^ that he would lead their pos- 
terity to the land of Canaan, which should be 
to them an everlasting inheritance '^ but at a 
more advanced period of Jewish history and 
while suffering from one of his periodical spells 
of anger, he addressed himself to Moses thusly: 
^^Say unto them, as truly as I live, saith the 
Lord, ye shall not enter into the land concern- 
ing which I swore to make you dwell therein. 
And your children shall wander in the wilder- 
ness forty years, until your carcasses are wasted 
and ye shall know my breach of promise.'' 
(Num. 14: 27, 34.) He violates his oath, 
breaks his promise, and then boasts of it like 
a pirate. But perhaps the most cold-blooded 
cruel and perfidious thing ever attributed to the 
Christian's God, was his fiendish treatment of 
his servant Job. Satan, the arch-fiend of hate 
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GOD AND SATAN AGREES. 195 

and malice, the wrecker of worlds, the enemy 
of all good, and the fell destroyer of man's 
peace and happiness pays one of his familiar 
visits to the Celestial Metropolis and enjoys a 
social conference with the Christian's august 
Ruler of the Heavens and the Earth. During 
the conversation between his godship and his 
devilship, the former referred feelingly to Job, 
and eulogised him as a perfect and upright 
man that ^^ eschewed evil and sinned not." The 
devil dissented from the Lord's opinion, and 
disputed Job's fidelity, and God, to convince 
his infernal guest that he was mistaken, gave 
the devil power to prove Job's integrity in the 
appalling and cruel manner, and Satan, in- 
vested with divine authority, at once visited 
on this hapless victim of divine perfidy the most 
fearful calamities, calling down fire from Heaven 
and consumed his vast flocks of sheep; sent the 
Bedouin Arabs from the desert and drove off 
his herds of camels; originated a cyclone and 
demolished the house in which Job's children 
were holding a feast, killing them all. Thus 
did Satan, by divine sanction, reduce Job in 
a single day from afl3uence to the most abject 
poverty, and bereft him of all his children. 



196 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

Could infernal malice do more? It seems that 
the measure of cruelty against Job was not com- 
plete, and Satan visited his Celestial Highness 
to obtain further authority to torture his victim. 
To destroy Job's property and bereave him of 
his children did not satisfy the malice of Satan, 
and he craved permission of the "Blessed 
Lord'' to torture Job's body. What was the 
'^Heavenly Father's" answer to this infamous 
demand ; it was of a nature that should schedule 
his name for perpetual infamy among the gods. 
Listen to it, ye Christian devotees of a god- 
defaming and man-degrading theology, and 
hide your faces in shame. The " Lord of Glory " 
answers Satan's cruel demand with these words: 
^'Although thou movedst me against him to 
destroy him without a cause." (Job 2:3.) 
What power Satan must have had to move the 
infinite God to destroy his greatest and upright 
and sinless servant without a cause; Christians, 
please analyze this answer well, and if you do 
not renounce allegiance to a book containing 
such loathsome ideas of God and justice, it 
proves that Jewish theism has dwarfed all your 
nobler impulses and left no trace of justice, 
sympathy or even decency, behind. But Satan 



GOD PITIED THE JUST. 197 

carried his point all the same, and smote his 
helpless victim with boils, from the crown of 
his head to the soles of his feet; and so sore 
were his afflictions and keen his agony that he 
cried out "Oh, that I had never been born!'' 
Oh, to what depths of degradation does super- 
stition sink man, that he is capable of accepting 
as truth such hideous caricatures on justice 
and decency. Here is the God of the Jews just 
going through all this most detestable villianous 
crime of punishing Job, a just man, to convince 
the Devil of his great power, and make the 
masses of the people tremble with fear at the 
very mention of his name. Of course the whole 
of the story of Job is a big lie, but it comes very- 
handy after it was 500 to 1,000 years old to tell 
the people about the powers of Satan and God's 
loving kindness for a just man. 



CHAPTER 43. 



GOD'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

AND DWELLING PLACE. 

He or they who formulated the idea of the 
Jewish God secured a perfect correspondence 
between his character and personal appearance. 
The psalmist, in describing his corporosity, 
tells us: ^^That out of his mouth proceeded 
fire, and out of his nostrils proceeded smoke, and 
he rode upon a cherub and did fly.'' (IL Sam. 
22: 9, IL) Stop for a moment and contem- 
plate this picture. The infinite Ruler of the 
Heavens and the Earth sitting astride a celestial 
hypogriffe and riding through the vast empy- 
rean with great lurid fiames of fire emanating 
from his cavernous mouth, and vast volumes 
of smoke rolling out from the labrynthian 
depths of his wide extended nostrils. Who can 
contemplate this scene and not be filled with 
unbounded admiration and love. 

Is in strict keeping with his appearance and 
character. " He made darkness his secret place, 
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christian's fearful spell. 199 

clouds and darkness are around about him.'' 
(Psalms 18:11 and 97: 2.) This fact must be 
extremely consoling to those who expect to 
spend an eternity in his commodious presence. 
Oh, Christian, what fearful spell has been thrown 
on you that you bow in reverence before this 
cruel and remorseless God, and call him by the 
sacred name of Father. In a spirit of candor 
I admonish you not to stultify your reason 
longer. Make a bold break for liberty, and 
strike off the shackles riveted on you by a 
mind-degrading theology. Play no longer the 
role of a slave to ecclesiastical master, but 
step out into the dignity of true manhood and 
womanhood and dare to think for yourselves 
and be free. Personal and infinity contradictory. 
No personal God can be infinite because Per- 
sonality has limits, and the Infinite has not. 
It is not logical to say one Infinite God. Theo- 
logians prate about monotheism — the one god 
idea — in contradistinction of polytheism — the 
idea of many gods. The Infinite can no more be 
unified or reduced to one than a circumference 
can be found in space, which is without a center 
and is boundless. It would be as easy to col- 
lect and confine in the hollow of the human hand 



200 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

the entire waters of the combined oceans of 
our globe, as to personaUze or unify the infinite. 
Then why outrage reason and contradict geom- 
etry, in trying to define the indefinable and 
comprehend the incomprehensible. The abso- 
lute is, and ever will be beyond the grasp of the 
finite, for the reason that the part can never 
equal the whole. The thing comprehending 
must be equal to or greater than the thing 
comprehended, hence to comprehend the in- 
finite, we must be equal to or greater than the 
infinite, and to do this lies forever beyond the 
range of remotest possibility. Then why spec- 
ulate further on Theology. Would it not be 
better to banish the whole subject from the 
human mind and turn our attention from the- 
ology to Anthropology, or the study of Man? 
and live for the betterment of all the human race 
and realize that Intelligence is God, and that is 
all the God the human race will ever know, the 
Emanuel within you and all the human race is 
the God for you to look to, and keep your house 
bright. 



CHAPTER 44. 



'THIEF END OF MAN'' AND RESPON- 
SIBILITY TO GOD. 

"Is to glorify God'' so says the Christian. 
How absurd and yet how universally accepted 
by the unthinking orthodox masses. Common 
sense should teach them the utter futility of 
trying to add to or improve perfection. If God 
is perfect; then are all his attributes perfect, 
therefore not susceptible of increase or improve- 
ment; hence all the time man has devoted to 
the help of the gods has been worse than wasted 
— ^wasted on the gods — to the neglect and injury 
of Man. If, instead of trying to glorify God, 
man had devoted his time and effort in glori- 
fying himself, today he would stand imperial 
in his wisdom and power, instead of the poor, 
ignorant, groveling thing that he is, wearing the 
yoke of his political and religious taskmaster. 

One of the most pernicious features of the- 
ism is the idea of Man's responsibility to God. 
This idea has enabled the priest and clergy to 

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202 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

enslave the masses through fear, and wrest 
from them rich benefices by thus playing on 
the fears of their communicants. Church of- 
ficials manage to revel in ease and luxury while 
their deluded dupes languish in penury and 
want. The origination and intelligent forces 
that cause man's existence on the earth are 
responsible for his actions. The Maker is 
responsible for the merit or demerit of the thing 
made, and not man responsible to the Maker. 
The theologians may indulge in their silly 
twaddle about ^^Free Wiir' but the fact that 
man is a creature of inherited predisposition 
and post natal circumstances, remains unchanged 
all the same. When man is pre-na tally awak- 
ened to a state of intelligent consciousness, and 
is consulted as to whether he will be or not be, 
and is allowed to indicate the quality of his 
parentage, the character of his inherited pre- 
disposition and his post-natal circumstances, 
then, and then only, will he become responsible 
for his actions; but just so long as he is arbi- 
trarily and blindly thrust into the world with- 
out any voice as to the character of his parent- 
age and pre-natal conditions and post-natal 
circumstances, just so long will he be devoid of 



MAN SHOULD BE FREE. 203 

that phase of responsibiUty, about which priests 
and preachers so loudly prate. When man 
intelligently outgrows the idea of a personal god 
with all the connected absurdities, then will he 
have taken the first step toward individual 
natal liberty. At present it is a pitiful parasite 
dependent on his theological counselors for 
guidance and direction, where for centuries he 
has been victimized by their erroneous teach- 
ings. Man, once emancipated from his super- 
stitious thralldom, will experience a marvelous 
change for the better — a change from error to 
truth, from ignorance to intelligence, from 
driveling slavery to an imperial freedom, from 
servile fears and doubt to hope and unwaver- 
ing confidence, and from the caprice of a myth- 
ical God to the certainty and infallibility of 
Intelligence (God) . The transition from theism 
to a full understanding that there is no Man 
God; that there is an almighty and powerful 
God, and that God is Intelligence and is in 
every human being and throughout the un- 
limited ethereal space and infinitude. 



CHAPTER 45. 



THE FACTS. 

The God of all Eternity and throughout all 
Infinitude is always with you in proportion as 
you adapt yourself to receive God, by allowing 
yourself to be possessed of an untrammeled 
conscience, and wisdom to absorb the greatest 
gift to man, human reason, which is the open 
door through which Intelligence (God) enters 
into the existence of every human being. The 
more reasoning force, the more InteUigence 
(God) every human being will possess. The 
age of theism will always be contemplated with 
deep feeUngs of loathing and disgust, and will 
always be designated in history as the darkest 
period of human existence. This assertion may 
sound harsh and unwarranted to orthodox ears, 
but I will give below a few corroborative facts 
chosen from a Ust of many thousand of the same 
character. 

In 391 the Christians burned the Serapian 

Library at Alexandria, Egypt, containing 
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MORE LIBRARY DESTRUCTION. 205 

700,000 volumes — the cream of the world's 
literature. A few years later, by order of Arch- 
bishop Cyril, they brutally murdered Hypatia, 
the maiden philosopher of Greece, who was then 
lecturing to assembled thousands in the audi- 
torium of the Temple of Serapis. These and 
many other acts of murder and vandalism, 
resulted in the suppression of the Greek Schools 
of Philosophy and turned the European World 
into dark night of Christian barbarism, that 
hung over the race like a deathly nightmare for 
twelve hundred years. The historian has brand- 
ed this era of Christian domination as the ^^ Dark 
Ages.'' Remember, that during this period, 
from the fourth to the seventeenth century, 
Christianity had complete control of the Eu- 
ropean nations in government, law, literature 
and religion, and human rights were unknown 
while ignorance, injustice, outrage, oppression 
and wrong enveloped the race like some black 
pall of death. To use the confession of John 
Wesley when referring to this period : 

" As the once most unhappy age set in 
All wickedness and every deadly sin, 
Truth, modesty and love fled away 

And force and thirst for gold claimed universal sway." 

(Wes. Ser. Vol. 2, page 64 ) 



206 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

In 1096 the Christians inaugurated the cru- 
sades under the banner of the Cross, lasting 
near two centuries, and resulting in the wanton 
destruction of countless treasure and over 
5,000,000 of hves. It was during this period 
that the crusaders sacked and burned the city 
of Cordova, with its magnificent Ubraiy of 
28,000 volumes, and TripoU, of Algiers, with 
its Ubrary of 300,000 volumes. For centuries 
during this period of Christian domination the 
Church in Europe was kept busy in ferreting 
out, condemning and burning witches and here- 
tics. The Bible, which our God-in-the-consti- 
tution folks want constituted the supreme law 
of the land, gave two exphcit laws as to the dis- 
position to be made of heretics and witches. 
Kill any one, even your bosom friend and near- 
est relatives if they dare advocate a reUgion or 
more properly Atheism, that differs from the 
approved religion of your fathers and do not 
'' suffer a witch to Uve." (Deut. 13: 6, 13.) 

AU that did not pay the priest were charged 
as being heretics or witches, and were burned 
aUve to deter others so they dare not fail to pay 
the Priest. 



CHAPTER 46. 



During this age the Bible ruled the Church 
and the Church ruled the State, and the people 
mourned. All literature not biblical was pro- 
scribed under penalty of death. Dr. Draper 
tells us that "Men in terror burned their li- 
braries to save themselves and families from 
destruction. '^ (I. D. 0. E. page 23.) Chambers' 
Encyclopedia estimates the number burned for 
witchcraft alone at 9,000,000. Dr. Dick, an 
ecclesiastical writer, states that 100,000 of Ger- 
many's best men and women were burned alive 
at the stake during the fourteenth century for 
the crime of witchcraft — a crime unknown to 
science. John Wesley tells us in his sermon 
that the religious contentions and persecutions 
were so fierce and unsparing during this age 
of christian brotherly love that 40,000,000 were 
slaughtered within the short space of forty 
years. Was ever record of death and cruelty 
so awful and appalling as this! Darwin says 
that during the prevalence of this Christian 

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208 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

holocaust and carnival of death, the scholars of 
Europe were depleted by means of dungeons, 
racks, gibbets and stakes at the rate of a thous- 
and a year — for three centuries, 300,000 teachers 
and philosophers destroyed. Did it ever occur 
to you that the drunkenness and licentious- 
ness of this age were due to the same cause, 
the adoption of Bible precepts and examples as 
standards by the orthodox masses. From the 
commencement of the Christian Era until near 
the close of the eighteenth century, the Christian 
world in its cruelty and bigotry gave to human 
rights and individual liberty not a shadow 
of recognition. But in 1776, Thomas Paine, 
Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Franklin and other grand 
old infidel patriots drew up a declaration of 
independence, and later adopted a constitution 
out of which God and Christ were expunged by 
a majority vote, and under this Godless and 
Christless constitution men and women have 
enjoyed a greater measure of individual liberty 
than ever before. What a contrast this infi- 
del government presents to the tyranny, op- 
pression and cruelty characterizing the Christian 
governments of Europe for 1200 years, when the 
Bible was accepted as the true charter of gov- 



PLEASE CONSIDER RESULTS. 209 

ernment and the correct standard of morality. 
With no infidel to protest against or modify its 
noxious influence, and yet in the face of these 
facts we have men so blinded and deluded by 
the teachings of the Church that they are in 
favor of fostering God and Christ in the con- 
stitution and striking a death-blow to our lib- 
erties. No wonder that ignorance, supersti- 
tion and violence cover the earth as with a 
mantle. Truthfully did John Wesley when 
referring to this fateful age of Christian domi- 
nation, cry out: "Oh, Earth, Earth, Earth! 
How dost thou groan under the villainies of 
thy Christians!^' (Wes. Ser. page 66, paragraph 
33.) Well did Talmadge say, referring to the 
same era when the teachings of the Bible were 
practically obeyed, that "right along beside 
consecrated altars there were tides of drunk- 
enness and licentiousness such as the world had 
never seen or heard of. And the people went 
from the house of God into the most appalling 
iniquity.^' (Tal. Ser. August 4, 1887.) Just so, 
Mr. Talmadge; causes and effect are ever true 
to each other. The loathsome conditions you 
speak of were the legitimate results of destroy- 
ing and murdering philosophers and literary 

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210 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

teachers and adopting the standard morals of 
the Bible, as exemphfied by its low and obscene 
teaching and examples. Could you expect any- 
thing better from a people that accepted ^^ Right- 
eous Lot/' ^^Good Old Jacob/' "Solomon and 
David/' as their examples of morahty — as vile 
a lot of old drunken debauchees as ever dis- 
graced the earth with their pestilent, loathsome 
presence. Why should people of education 
and refinement, who have the welfare of the 
people at stake, allow such a loathe, vulgar and 
obscene book in their house, whose teachings 
are of the very worst moral character, and its 
presence not at all necessary in this world at 
present or hereafter, in this life, or after death. 



CHAPTER 47. 



Perpetual vigilance imperatively necessary. 
It is a mistake to conclude that the days of 
bigotry and persecution are over, while the 
Bible, the charter of tyranny, slavery and op- 
pression is still accepted as the standard of 
human action by orthodox masses. Remove 
the restraining influence exerted by an infidel 
constitution, the liberal press and the progres- 
sive tendency of the age, and we would soon ex- 
perience a re-enactment of the horrors of the 
Dark Ages. The church bigots, both Prot- 
estant and Catholic, show their true character 
as often as circumstances enable them to do so. 
In Henry county, Tennessee, they arrested two 
honest, industrious and sober men for the crime 
of working on their secluded farms during a 
single Sunday. They were dragged from their 
homes and helpless families by the officers of 
the law and confined in the filthy cells of the 

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212 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

county jail at night, and worked with felons on 
the chain gang during the day. Was Russian 
tyranny ever more offensive than this, and 
similar outrages perpetrated by the heartless 
minions of church superstition in our own 
boasted Land of Freedom? The industry, hon- 
esty and sobriety of these victims of orthodox 
bigotry counted nothing in their favor. 

There is no vahd reason why any human being 
should be punished for not considering the day 
of Sunday holy. The word holy is a myth and 
has no meaning separate and apart from church 
bigots. It is not for the State and Nation to say 
what is holy. Every person is responsible for 
their own actions before or after death, not the 
State or Nation. 



CHAPTER 48. 



Honesty, uprightness and morality have no 
legitimate place in a religion that the Jewish 
God and the horrible doctrine of original sin 
and the Vicarious Atonement. The destroying 
and covering up of all the truthful evidence 
against the Scriptures has been the chief aim 
and intent of priestcraft from the time of their 
lying genesis and mythical Adam. At the 
three cities of Cordova, Tripoli and Alexandria 
the Crusaders burned one million and twenty- 
eight thousand volumes of the past world ^s his- 
tory, probably covering ten thousand years 
back and before their much vaunted genesis, 
and some fourteen thousand years before Jesus 
Christ ever saw the manger. Every scrap of 
history that had any tendency to disprove the 
old Jewish Bible or the New Testament found 
the fiery furnace or the bottom of the sea. The 
great pile of engravings and manuscripts de- 
stroyed at the Nicene council, A. D. 325, would 
in all probability have made a book as large as 

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214 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

Josephus, which would have contained the truth- 
ful history of the coming of Jesus Christ, and the 
fabulous things he did and said by legerdemain 
and embellished by his loud-mouthed ignorant 
disciples. But priestcraft was not yet sat- 
isfied with what they had destroyed, but had 
the finding overhauled again at Constantinople, 
A. D. 381, where they got stiU more thrown 
out and destroyed. Have you no interest in 
the welfare of the coming generations? Dare 
you remain indifferent or inactive longer? If 
you do, bow your necks and receive the merited 
brand of traitors to your race and the age in 
which you Uve. Ponder these facts weU, and 
remember that eternal vigilance is the price of 
Libertv. Martin Luther was without doubt, 
the greatest Cathohc priest, and had the greatest 
force of reason of any man associated with his 
church, but it was too hard for him to break 
away from his hfe training, to keep down hu- 
man reason and IntelUgent Thought, was the 
very foundation of the Jewish and Christian 
Church, and Ignorance and Superstition were 
the bulwarks supporting the wealth and power 
of the church; see what he said: "Reason, the 
greatest harlot, the Devil's bride, the worst 



BIASED BY TRAINING 215 

seducer of Mankind.'' "Oh Man! Speculate 
not with thy devilish queries touching God's 
words and works." — Martin Luther. Now com- 
pare this with the greatest thinker and human 
reasoner that ever existed on the earth, Thomas 
Jefferson. A man that feared no future, and 
expected no reward. A free man. ^^Fix Rea- 
son on her seat firmly and call to her tribunal 
every opinion; question boldly even the exis- 
tence of a God, because if there be one. He must 
more approve the homage of Reason than blind 
fear." — Thomas Jefferson, in letter to Peter 
Carr (see memoirs of Thomas Jefferson.) Such 
men were scarce in Jefferson's time, but they are 
not scarce these days. Half the people in the 
United States now have opinions on the same 
line of thought as Jefferson, Franklin and 
Paine, and within 50 years more, the great 
majority of the educated and intelligent people 
will step boldly out under the shade of the 
Liberty Tree, which is firmly rooted infidel 
Constitution, and be free men and women. 



CHAPTER 49. 



Blind, dogmatic, undoubting faith, not mo- 
rality, is the chief requirement of the Christian 
system. Moody, in his meetings, asks prayers 
for ^Hhe conversion of moral men.'' Whittle, 
in his revival sermons, speaks of the sin of mor- 
ality without faith, and the Rev. John Higginson 
said, "That which is contrary to the Gospel 
has no rights, and hence should have no liberty.'' 
The Christian bigots of New York and other 
cities tax the laboring masses to build, furnish 
and support libraries and museums, and then 
close these public institutions on Sunday, the 
only day in the week that the poor man and 
his family have leisure to attend them ; and they 
have tried to perpetrate a similar outrage by 
closing the gates of the World's Fair, to the 
injury and detriment of the laboring classes. 

Reader, do you propose to witness these start- 
ling infringements of human rights without pro- 
test? Are you so blind that you cannot see 
the dark shadows of church superstition novv" 
surely settling down upon us? Do you propose 
to sit supinely down and allow bigoted and 
tyrannical ecclesiasticism to wrest from you the 
liberties our patriot fathers purchased for you 
with their best blood? 

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CHAPTER 50. 



MOSES AND JOSHUA. 

Moses was a murderer (Ex. 2: 12) when he 
fled to the Government of Midian and married 
one of the seven daughters of a priest, who gave 
him a home and protection for forty years, 
(Ex. 2: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.) and afterward 
visited him and instructed him how to govern 
his people; but I notice that when another 
Hebrew brought a Midianish woman in sight of 
Moses, he and the woman were at once mur- 
dered in the most cruel manner, while Moses 
and Aaron smiled, and their mythical God was 
so well pleased that he stopped the plague. 
(Num. 25: 6, 7, 8.) It will be noticed that a 
Midianish woman was good enough to be the 
wife of Moses, and good enough for Moses to 
live with and raise his family with, and he was 
always treated well for forty years, but true to 
Hebrew instinct to return evil for good, so 
Moses gave orders to destroy Midian by mur- 

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218 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

dering and slaying all the males and all females 
that had known man, and that too often they 
were prisoners in their power, but true to He- 
brew lust the virgins were given to the army 
for prostitution. The number slain was 120,000. 
The number of virgins reserved to appease the 
lust of the army was 51,500. Now these are 
some of the acts and doings of that most detest- 
able imbecile Moses, who, in his conquest of 
highway robbery, murder, plunder and rapine 
in the name of his mythical God that never had 
any existence, and then added to his long list 
of dissembling crimes and villainies by marrying 
a negro woman, who, without doubt, was more 
than his equal from every moral point of view. 
He was a natural born murderer and thief, and 
all laws he was supposed to hand down from 
his mythical God he stole from the Midianites 
and the ancient Chaldean code of laws. When 
the Hebrews went to Egypt there were only 
seventy persons all told, (Deut. 10: 21, 22). 
and when they left Egypt 430 years later, they 
were about 600,000 men, or about 2,700,000 
people. (Ex. 12: 37, 40.) The secret of that 
was, before they were taken over by Egypt, 
they were a lazy, do-nothing, dishonest set, 



MOSES INSTRUCTS THEM HOW TO LIE. 219 

always poverty stricken, crying for water and 
something to eat. The Egyptians made 
them work, but they could not make them 
honest, and with plenty to eat and exercise, 
they increased like rats, and when they were 
ready to go, Moses gave them his first lesson in 
training thieves, to take every valuable thing 
that they could get hold of (Ex. 12 : 35.) Moses 
argued with his mythical God, who repented. 
(Ex. 32: 11, 12, 13, 14.) Aaron knew all the 
time that what Moses taught was humbuggery, 
and he was in the scheme for the money and 
spoils in the business, for as when Moses failed 
to return on time he made the golden calf for 
the people to worship. (Ex. 32: 24.) Moses' 
legerdemain where he smote the dry rock and 
the water came out for the people and their 
beasts also, (Num. 20: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.) no 
such event ever took place; just the same as 
hundreds of other big fabulous lies worked into 
Bible history by priestcraft to overawe the 
ignorant people by church hoodwinking decep- 
tions. The bigger the lies the better they take 
with the church members all over the world. 
Human reason or criticism has no legitimate 
rights inside of church walls. If there ever 



220 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

were devils incarnate on this earth, Moses and 
Joshua was the superlative loving pair. They 
claimed the right to murder, slaughter and de- 
stroy many nations of innocent people because 
a mythical God that never had any existence 
had given them the country. Their trade was 
to manufacture big Ues, slaughter, murder inno- 
cent people and carry off their property. The 
North American Indians never were more cruel 
and remorseless in their deeds, and still we see 
and hear priests and preachers in the church 
loudly singing their praise. If I believed in the 
Jewish and Christian's hell of damnation, I 
would be certain that old Moses and Joshua were 
right in the very middle of it, and then they 
would fail to get justice even there. Then to 
go to a revival meeting and hear the people 
sing ^' There we will see the good old Moses, 
there we'll see the good old Moses, there we'll 
see the good old Moses, safe in the Promised 
Land.'' 



CHAPTER 51. 



POSITIVE ASSERTIONS IN 
THE SCRIPTURES. 

"Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord 
walking in the Garden in the cool of the day.'^ 
(Gen. 3: 8.) Jacob says: ^^For I have seen 
God face to face.'' (Gen. 32: 30.) Moses and 
seventy-three other men of Israel saw the Lord 
of Israel, and what he stood on under his feet, 
and as it were, the body of heaven in his clear- 
ness, and they also saw God. (Ex. 24: 9, 10, 11.) 
"And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, 
as a man speaketh to a friend." (Ex. 33: 11.) 
The Lord shows his back parts to Moses. (Ex. 
33: 22, 23.); which are positively contradicted 
in the scriptures. "And he (God) said, thou 
canst not see my face, for there shall no man see 
me and live." (Ex. 33: 20.) "And I will take 
away my hand and thou shalt see my back 
parts; but my face shall not be seen." (Ex. 33: 
23.) "No man has seen God at any time." 
(John 1: 18.) The apostle Paul says: "The 
King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who only 
hath immortality, dwelling in light which no 
man can approach unto; whom no man hath, 

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222 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

nor can see/' (I. Tim. 6:15, 16.) Who can 
believe the scriptures when it is full of asser- 
tions and contradictions? '^ The Creator faint eth 
not, neither is weary.'' (Isaiah 40: 28.)^^ He 
rested and was refreshed." (Ex. 31: 17.)^^ I am 
weary of repenting." (Jer. 15: 6.) "The eyes 
of the Lord are in every place." (Rev. 15: 3.) 
"But the Lord came dow^n to see the city." 
(Gen. 15: 5.) "God is not man that he should 
repent." (Num. 23: 19.) "Israel's God re- 
pented of the evil." (Jonah 3: 10.) "His anger 
endureth but for a moment." (Paul 30: 5.) 
"For ye have kindled a fire in my anger that 
will burn forever." (Jas. 17: 4.) "God cannot 
be tempted wth evil, neither tempted he any 
man." (Jas. 1 : 13.) "God did tempt Abraham". 
(Gen. 22: 1.) "Impossible for God to lie." 
(Heb. 6: 18.) "The Lord has put a lying spirit 
in the mouth of all these prophets." (Kings 
22 :23.) " The Lord is very pitiful and of tender 
mercy." (James 5: 11.) "I will not have pity 
nor spare nor have mercy, but destroy them." 
(Jer. 13: 14.) "God made darkness his secret 
place." (Pr. 97: 2.) "God, dwelling in light, 
which no man can approach." (Apostle Paul in 
I. Tim. 6: 15, 16.) Only fools accept the man 
God of the scriptures as the God of the Eternal 
Infinitude. All Human Reason shows that 
there is but one God, and that God is the eternal 
unlimited, unchangeable Intelligence. 



CHAPTER 52. 



In this day and time of scientific attainments 
all the church worships of the world are fast 
becoming obsolete, and in the near future 
they will become more so. The Sunday, within 
the next fifty years will be antedated and a 
thing of the past. A man is a bigot and a fool 
that neglects his harvest or any other kind of 
crop on account of Sunday. It is no crime to 
disbelieve in the sanctity of the Sabbath day, 
as every person is individually responsible for 
their own acts, and not the State and Nation. 

" Know then, thyself; presume not God to scan; 
The proper study of mankind is man." — Pope. 

'^The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like 
another Cerberus with one body and three heads 
had its origin and growth in the blood of thous- 
ands of martyrs.'^ — Thomas Jefferson. ^^ Hu- 
man Reason is the greatest, the superlative 
attribute of Human Intelligence, God's greatest 
gift to Man, and he that would hinder, impede 
obstruct or entrammel Human Reason is an 
enemy of the human race." — Thomas Jefferson 
Simpson. I dedicate and send this book, 
greeting to all the Human Race, and, I hope, for 
the betterment of all Mankind. 

Thomas Jefferson Simpson, 
Clarksburg, Missouri. 
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APPENDIX No. 1. 



SIMPSON'S SANITARIUM. 

Clarksburg is located in the most healthy 
part of Missouri or the great west, being on the 
high table land between the Missouri and Osage 
rivers, and some 250 feet above these rivers, 
where there is a healthful breeze of pure vital 
oxygenated air, free from sulphurous and other 
poisonous and contaminating gases such as are 
given off from the locations of large cities. 
Surrounded by large smelting works for glass, 
iron and other metals, factories, machine shops, 
rolling mills, discharging sewage, waste and 
filth from street sweeping and cleanings, de- 
caying vegetables and from flesh in the city 
and near-by graveyards, offal from stock yards, 
slaughter houses and stock car cleanings, and 
many other sources of filth, and were it not for 
the fact that the carbonaceous and other nox-" 
ious gases are heavier than the air and settle 
down on or near the surface of the ground 
where great quantities are drawn through the 
fire by chimney flues and smokestacks and de- 
stroyed and in that way purify the air to some 
extent, otherwise the health would be appalling, 
indicating that it is more healthy to sleep one 
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Simpson's sanitarium. 225 

or two stories above the surface, but in turn the 
chimney flues and smokestacks throw out a 
great quantity of soot contaminating and mixing 
with the air and finding its way into lungs, ger- 
minating diseases of the lungs, trachea and 
bronchi, resulting in consumption and pre- 
mature death. 

Consumption can be cured, says Dr. T. J, 
Simpson on consumption, written five years ago. 

Every cold, every cough may mean con- 
sumption, if neglected. If the cold or cough 
does not abate in four to six weeks by the treat- 
ment of the family physician, then a physician 
better posted on the treatment and cure of 
consumption should be engaged. A physician 
that can only palliate the disease is of no benefit 
except that the consum.ptive may be with family 
and friends a few days longer by such treatment, 
but death must be the result. Bronchitis, lar- 
yngitis, tonsilitis, tubercular meningitis, miliary 
tuberculosis, caseous phthisis (which is cat- 
arrhal pneumonia) , tubercular phthisis. Fibroid 
phthisis, stenosis of trachea and bronchi, are all 
consumption in its incipiency, developing into 
phthisis pulmonalis. 

All the aforesaid diseases are so many roads 
or steps in the stairway that leads down to tu- 
bercular consumption and death. All are con- 
sumption; all can be palliated, a great many 
can be cured. Hereditary consumption, com- 

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226 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

plicated with scrofula, heart disease or other 
chronic ailments, or in tubercular consumption 
that have progressed until the lungs have be- 
come hepatic, these must die. 

In all stages of consumption, bacilli exist in 
the sputa and in the expired air, establishing 
the fact that the disease is contagious. Fur- 
niture should be dusted and the rooms swept 
while the rooms are well ventilated, and with a 
heavy veil over nose and mouth. The sputa 
should be on paper and burned, and the excre- 
ment buried, and no other person should be 
allowed to occupy the same bed or room with a 
consumptive person. If these rules were strict- 
ly followed, deaths by consumption would be 
greatly decreased. Never use patent nostrums; 
they only benefit the seller and not the user. 
There is not now, nor ever will be, any one 
mixture or prescription of drugs that will cure 
consumption, as the disease is always changing 
and the treatment has to be changed from time 
to time to meet the changes of the disease. 

The great drawbacks in the treatment of 
consumption are : 

First, they do not call a physician soon 
enough; and second, when they do call a physi- 
cian, they do not call a physician, like myself, 
who makes the treatment of consumption a 
specialty and a success. 

The great cause of consumption, diabetes, 



Simpson's sanitarium. 227 

rheumatism, heart disease and other chronic 
afflictions, is by imperfect physical structure 
of the human organization, as the result of il- 
logical mating in the marriage unions, contrary 
to the laws of human temperaments. If all 
marriage unions were made in accordance with 
the laws of human temperaments, the result 
would be greater perfection in the physical struc- 
ture of the human body, less disease, less doctor 
bills, greater happiness and longer life by an 
hundred fold. If the human race were so bred, 
there would not be so many people as now, but 
the most perfect would probably live and enjoy 
felicitously a happy life from 150 to 200 years, 
and they would have access and use of their 
accumulated experience and wisdom in inven- 
tions, arts and sciences, developing the com- 
forts of life to that degree not now competent 
for the human mind to conceive. Criminals 
are bred and born criminals, rather to be pitied 
than punished. 

I have not after five years changed my mind 
in regard to the mating and breeding of the 
human race, more especially the Caucasian, or 
white race, contrary to the laws of human tem- 
peraments. When we can see right before our 
eyes the improvements that have been made in 
the birds of the air, the domestic fowls, the dogs, 
the hogs, . the horses, the cattle, as well as the 
vegetable kingdom and the fruits, then turn 



228 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

our eyes on the great white race of mankind, 
the highest, the greatest, the superlative animal 
that inhabits the earth, and see that there is no 
more Intelligence used or pains taken by the 
people in their mating and breeding than the 
common cur-dog — just as they happen to meet 
or get acquainted. 

I know, of my own experience, two marriages 
where in mating the men and women were well 
formed physically, and healthy. In Number 
One, the mating was properly done in accord- 
ance with the laws of Human Temperaments; 
they had born to them sixteen children, four- 
teen boys and two girls, and the father told me 
when his youngest child was nine years old, 
that separate and apart from his midwife bill 
that for doctor or medicine he had never paid 
as much as ten dollars in all his married hfe; 
that they had whooping cough, measles, mumps 
and other local troubles, but that all the chil- 
dren were alive and healthy. 

Number Two had ten children born to them, 
all of which were weakUngs and eight of which 
died with consumption before they were twenty 
years old, and the father and mother both 
caught the disease from the children and they 
too died of consumption before they were forty 
years old. While the above two marriages as 
stated were facts, they are no doubt to some 
extent exceptions, but the tendency is strongly 



Simpson's sanitarium. 229 

indicated that improper mating does produce 
consumption and other diseases and lowers the 
physical structure as well as the intellect of 
the human race. 

There should be a man at every county seat 
in the United States that is well versed in the 
laws of Human Temperaments, where boys and 
girls, men and women, could go, and for a small 
fee he would write a good description of their 
future mate that would be the best adapted to 
them to become the father or mother of their 
children, and the effect on the people in three 
or four generations would be astounding. Under 
such a system, when the young man or young 
lady, single man or lady went forth to seek 
their future wife or husband they would select 
such a one as in their opinion filled the descrip- 
tion best for their well-being and future happi- 
ness, and such as would be an improvememt of 
the race and nation. It would not be neces- 
sary for every boy or girl to be a professor of 
the Laws of Human Temperaments and their 
beneficial or baleful effects. It is evident to 
all posted men and women that great benefits 
would redound to the people and the nation. 
It would lessen disease, sickness, sorrow and 
afflictions of the people and at the same time 
add to the beauty, symmetry of form, physical 
strength, intellectual force of origination and 
inventive skill to the very pinnacle of human 



230 FACTS, TRUTHS AND REASON. 

attainments for the benefit, well-doing and 
happiness of the human race. Then the people 
would have the full measure of intelligence 
(God), within them, and would have attained 
to all the heaven they are entitled to on this 
earth or future eternity. To some it might 
seem more desirable to seek a mythical Heaven 
beyond the grave, but for me, I prefer my 
Heaven here on earth, from which I never 
expect to go. I prefer to live in and on real 
things, and not in and on mythical expectations 
somewhere in the eternal unlimited infinitude. 
I do not use any prayers in my treatment of 
the diseased and afflicted. All of that kind of 
mythical medicine is entirely too thin to enter 
into any of my prescriptions. Prayer is a 
tenacious humbug, never has cured anyone, 
and never will. My medical skill in the treat- 
ment of disease is as a specialist. I do not do a 
general practice, and only do minor surgery. 
My treatment of consumption and many other 
diseases is my own discovery and not known to 
the medical profession, and by which I have had 
good success. Many of the diseases I treat by 
lotions apphed externally, aided by instructions. 
Many diseases can be cured by dieting aided by 
instructions. Some diseases can be cured en- 
tirely by instructions. While I make a specialty 
of Throat, Lung, Asthma, Catarrhs, Facial 
Neuralgia, Sick Headache, Migraine, Tiedoreaux, 



Simpson's sanitarium. 231 

Common or Granulated Sore Eyes, Sties, 
Felons, Pimples, Boils, Moles, Warts, Falling 
Hair, Baldness, Dyspepsia, Diarhoea, Gout, 
Skin Diseases, Rheumatics, Corpulency, Bowel, 
Stomach and Liver and Kidney Complaints, Vari- 
cocele, Hydrocele, Varicose Veins, Sebaceous, 
Fatty, or Granulated Tumors, cured without 
cutting or shedding a drop of blood, I do not 
pretend that I can cure every patient. If I 
did, the undertaker would be out of business. 
I do not treat Piles, Scrofula, Venereal or 
Syphilitic Diseases. I do not treat Female 
Diseases or act as an Accoucheur. The charges 
will be reasonable both for treatment and per- 
sonal accommodations. Your correspondence is 
solicited. My reputation as a gentleman, for 
honesty, uprightness, square dealing, and moral 
character will stand investigation. 

T. J. SIMPSON, M. D., 

Clarksburg, Missouri. 



JUL ?'3 1908 



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